Earle B. Young - Galveston and the Great West (Centennial Series of the Association of Former Students, Texas a & M University)
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Number Sixty-Nine: The Centennial Series of the Association of Former Students, Texas A&M University
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Galveston and the Great West
Earle B. Young
Texas A&M University Press College Station
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Copyright 1997 by Earle B. Young Manufactured in the United States of America All rights reserved First edition
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All photos appearing in this book are courtesy of the Rosenberg Library, Galveston, Texas
The paper used in this book meets the minimum requirements of the American National Standard for Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, Z39.48-1984. Binding materials have been chosen for durability.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Young, Earle B., 1929 Galveston and the great West / Earle B. Young. p. cm. (Centennial series of the Association of Former Students, Texas A&M University; no. 69) Includes bibliographical references (p. ) and index. ISBN 0-89096-773-3 (cloth) 1. Galveston (Tex.) History. 2. Galveston (Tex.) Economic conditions. 3. Transportation Texas Galveston History. I. Title. II. Series. F394.G2Y68 1997 976.4'139 dc21 97-19543 CIP
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To my dearest wife, Gaynelle. Without her caring love, the contentment required to complete this task would have been impossible.
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Contents
List of Illustrations
ix
Preface
xi
Chapter 1. Richardson Points the WayWest
3
Chapter 2. The Struggle for National Attention
10
Chapter 3. Galveston's "Kansas City Movement"
37
Chapter 4. The Army Engineers Tryand Fail
51
Chapter 5. Gould and Huntington Seek A Gulf Port
70
Chapter 6. The Deep Water Committee Attacks
79
Chapter 7. Denver Needs a Port
107
Chapter 8. The Western States Are Aroused
114
Chapter 9. Focused on Deep Water
150
Chapter 10. Triumph
184
Epilogue
199
Notes
201
Bibliography
217
Index
221
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Illustrations
following page 113
Galveston Harbor, 1874
Capt. Charles Fowler
Gabion construction, 1875
Col. William L. Moody
Walter Gresham
Grain Elevator A
President Benjamin Harrison and others aboard ship
South Jetty during construction
Willard Richardson
Celebrating the 1,500,000th bale, February 28, 1895
Members of Galveston Cotton Exchange
Galveston Harbor, ca. 1900
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Preface
This is a book about an idea and its implementation. The port city that Galveston came to be by 1900 was the result of the flow of ideas in the years immediately after the Civil War. Then followed thirty-five years of implementation, when the ideas of dreamers and thinkers were turned into concrete results by practical men. It was engineers, bankers, politicians, civic leaders, attorneys, craftsmen, mechanics, and laborers who finally shaped a world-class harbor capable of handling the largest ships afloat.
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