Mythic Galveston: Reinventing America's Third Coast

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Despite its appeal as a natural harbour, Galveston, Texas, is located on a small Gulf Coast barrier island that makes it ill-suited for dense urban development. Early American and European settlers envisioned Galveston harbour as a place with tremendous economic potential, appropriate for urban expansion. In this book, Susan Wiley Hardwick examines Galveston's rapid rise and the myth created by immigrants and boosters to promote the vision of an abundant...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0801868874

ISBN13:9780801868870

Release Date:April 2002

Publisher:Johns Hopkins University Press

Length:200 Pages

Weight:0.98 lbs.

Dimensions:0.7" x 6.1" x 9.7"

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