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Galveston Chronicles: the Queen City of the Gulf

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ISBN-10: 1626191824

ISBN-13: 9781626191822

Edition: 2013

Authors: Donald Willett, Patricia Bellis Bixel, Chester Burns, Gary Cartwright, Margaret Henson

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Description:

A collection of vignettes on Galveston, Texas history.
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Book details

List price: $24.99
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Publication date: 8/13/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 208
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.31" tall
Weight: 0.770
Language: English

Donald Willett is a Professor of History at Texas A&M University at Galveston. He received his PhD from Texas A&M University. He has published numerous books on Texas history including The Texas That Might Have Been: Sam Houston's Foes Write to Albert Sidney Johnston.

Acknowledgements
Cannibals and Pirates: The First Inhabitants of Galveston
Founding the Galveston City Company: Nineteenth-Century Politics, Entrepreneurs and Land Speculation
"A More Pusillanimous Surrender": The Battle of Galveston
"How Sweet It Is!": The Eliza and Harris Kempner Legacy
George T. Ruby: Galveston's First Black Senator
Galveston's Nineteenth-Century Medical Legacies
Norris Wright Cuney: African American Politician and Businessman
"Of Fine and Enduring Dignity": Stephen Crane's 1895 Visit to Galveston
The Great Galveston Storm
Everything that Mortal Men Can Do: The Galveston Sea Wall and Grade Raising
"A Municipal Broom": Urban Reform and the Woman Suffrage Campaign in Galveston
Boyer Gonzales: Galveston's Greatest Artist
"There's Sin in This Here City!": Galveston and the Great Depression
Stalag Galveston
From the Sand Crabs to the White Caps: Professional Baseball in Galveston
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