Breckenridge was a sleepy ranching and farming community in the rolling prairie of north central Texas when an oil boom hit.
The football stadiu.
Pieces of the past remain in its 10-story skyscraper, the YMCA, and other edifices constructed in the Roaring Twenties, many of which are documented in this volume.
By some accounts, its population got as high as 50,000 in the mid-1920s, which would have made it the sixth-largest city in Texas.
During 1920, it grew from around 1,500 to 30,000 people.
Breckenridge was a sleepy ranching and farming community in the rolling prairie of north central Texas when an oil boom hit