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Loading... Galveston-Houston Packet: Steamboats on Buffalo Bayou (edition 2012)by Andrew W. Hall
Work InformationGalveston-Houston Packet: Steamboats on Buffalo Bayou by Andrew W. Hall
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Many imagine the settlement of the American West as signaled by the dust of the wagon train or the whistle of a locomotive. During the middle decades of the nineteenth century, though, the growth of Texas and points west centered on the seventy-mile water route between Galveston and Houston. This single vital link stood between the agricultural riches of the interior and the mercantile enterprises of the coast, with a round of operations that was as sophisticated and efficient as that of any large transport network today. At the same time, the packets on the overnight Houston-Galveston run earned a reputation as colorful as their Mississippi counterparts, complete with impromptu steamboat races, makeshift naval gunboats during the Civil War, professional gamblers and horrific accidents. No library descriptions found. |
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Google Books — Loading... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)387.5Social sciences Commerce, Communications, Transportation Rivers, Oceans, and Flight Maritime HistoryLC ClassificationRatingAverage: No ratings.Is this you?Become a LibraryThing Author. |