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Texas Library Association
District 1
Serving the Big Country and the Concho Valley
Welcome to District 1 of the Texas Library
Association! Our District's membership includes over 200
Librarians, Staff, Trustees, full-time Library students, and other
interested individuals representing school, public, academic, and
special libraries. We are located in the "Big Country" and Concho
Valley regions of
Mid-West and West Texas as depicted in the image of Texas.
Dallas, Austin, San Antonio, and Houston are all to our east, and
Lubbock and El Paso lie to our west. The major metropolitan
areas within this region consist of
Abilene
(MSA pop. 157,322) and San
Angelo (MSA pop. 104,830). District 1 includes 32 Texas counties
with a total population of 473,203 covering over 34,257 square
miles.
Environmentally, this diverse area can be divided a
variety of ways - by geology, weather, water resources, vegetation,
etc. However, perhaps the most helpful and detailed way of
characterization is by Land Resource Region, which then provides
additional information regarding the other categories.
District 1 is primarily composed of the
Texas North-Central Prairies,
Central Rolling Red Plains, and
Edwards Plateau; but some counties also contain land within the
West Cross Timbers,
Texas Central Basin, and the
Southern Desertic Basins, Plains, and Mountains.
For "a few good books" regarding the history of this
region, you might want to try the following:
Duff, Katharyn. (1969). Abilene on Catclaw
Creek; a profile of a West Texas town. Abilene, TX: Reporter
Pub.
Olden, William. (1930). Alkali trails; or
Social and economic movements of the Texas frontier. Dallas:
Southwest Press.
Richardson, Rupert. (1990). Along Texas old forts trail.
Denton, TX: University of North Texas Press.
Richardson, Rupert. (1963). Frontier of
Northwest Texas, 1846 to 1876. Glendale, CA: A. H. Clark.
Tom Green County Historical Preservation League.
(2003). Tom Green County: Chronicles of our heritage.
Abilene, TX: HV Chapman & Sons.
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