Table of Contents
Acknowledgements 9
1 Cannibals and Pirates: The First Inhabitants of Galveston Donald Willett 11
2 Founding the Galveston City Company: Nineteenth-Century Politics, Entrepreneurs and Land Speculation Margaret Swett Henson 23
3 "A More Pusillanimous Surrender": The Battle of Galveston Donald Willett 33
4 "How Sweet It Is!": The Eliza and Harris Kempner Legacy Elise Hopkins Stephens 49
5 George T. Ruby: Galveston's First Black Senator Merline Pitre 73
6 Galveston's Nineteenth-Century Medical Legacies Chester R. Burns 83
7 Norris Wright Cuney: African American Politician and Businessman Robert Shelton 97
8 "Of Fine and Enduring Dignity": Stephen Crane's 1895 Visit to Galveston Edward Simmen 109
9 The Great Galveston Storm David G. McComb 119
10 Everything that Mortal Men Can Do: The Galveston Sea Wall and Grade Raising Patricia Bellis Bixel 133
11 "A Municipal Broom": Urban Reform and the Woman Suffrage Campaign in Galveston Larry J. Wygant 147
12 Boyer Gonzales: Galveston's Greatest Artist Edward Simmen 159
13 "There's Sin in This Here City!": Galveston and the Great Depression Gary Cartwright 171
14 Stalag Galveston Arnold Krammer 187
15 From the Sand Crabs to the White Caps: Professional Baseball in Galveston Bill O'Neal 197
About the Authors 205