9" x 11.5", 333 page hardcover with dustjacket titled BUILDING THE LONE STAR: AN ILLUSTRATED GUIDE TO HISTORIC SITES by T. Lindsay Baker / Texas A M University Press, ISBN # 0-89096-289-8, First Edition, copyright 1986 / The book presents more than a hundred historic engineering sites in Texas pictured, and described. The first published book to look at the historical structures, from windmills and lighthouses to dams and bridges, that were responsible for making Texas the habitable place it is today. The appendix provides brief descriptions of hundreds more engineering works in Texas. The book is complete and in VERY GOOD condition with some overall wear.