Author: Publisher: ISBN: Category : History Languages : en Pages : 184
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By: The Galveston County Genealogical Society, Pub. 1984, Reprinted 2021, 172 pages, soft cover, Index, ISBN #0-89308-343-7. This is the only early ships' passenger list that has survived for Texas. Information you will find includes name of vessel, name of master, port of departure, name of passenger, age, sex, occupation, origin, and destination. This book contains more than 9,000 names and is a very valuable tool for this time period.
Author: David G. McComb Publisher: University of Texas Press ISBN: 0292793219 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 382
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A colorful history of the island city on Texas’s Gulf Coast and its survival through times of piracy, plague, civil war, and devastating natural disaster. On the Gulf edge of Texas between land and sea stands Galveston Island. Shaped continually by wind and water, it is one of earth’s ongoing creations, where time is forever new. Here, on the shoreline, embraced by the waves, a person can still feel the heartbeat of nature. And yet, for all the idyllic possibilities, Galveston’s history has been anything but tranquil. Across Galveston’s sands have walked Indians, pirates, revolutionaries, the richest men of nineteenth-century Texas, soldiers, sailors, bootleggers, gamblers, prostitutes, physicians, entertainers, engineers, and preservationists. Major events in the island’s past include hurricanes, yellow fever, smuggling, vice, the Civil War, the building of a medical school and port, raids by the Texas Rangers, and, always, the struggle to live in a precarious location. Galveston: A History is an engrossing account that also explores the role of technology and the often contradictory relationship between technology and the city, providing a guide to both Galveston history and the dynamics of urban development.
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Author: Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild
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Author: Eva Lembcke
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Author: David G. McComb
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