Historical vignettes of Galveston Bay /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Epperson, Jean L (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Woodville, Tex. : Dogwood Press, [1995]
Subjects:	Galveston Bay (Tex.) > History. Galveston Bay (Tex.) > Genealogy. Galveston, Baie de (Tex.) > Histoire. Galveston, Baie de (Tex.) > Généalogies. Gulf of Mexico > Galveston Bay. United States, Texas, Galveston, Galveston > History. United States, Texas, Harris > History. United States, Texas, Chambers > History. Genealogy. History.

Table of Contents:

pt. 1. Galveston Bay.
part 2. Stories from Around the Bay: The French Trading Post on the Trinity River
Mutiny on the Topaz
The mysterious Smiths
The 1834 census of Anahuac and J. Frank Dobie's great grandfather
The Schooner Mary affair
Captain William P. Harris and Red Bluff
The S/S Cayuga, the floating capitol of Texas
Captain Thomas "Mexican" Thompson
Early custom houses in Galveston
Burrell Franks, a huntsman for Jean Laffite
Flanders Grove to Evergreen to Kemah
Who were the Clear Lake Pirates?
John M. Smith, a Texas Tory
Ritson "Jawbone" Morris
William Scott and Point Pleasant
Thomas Jefferson Chamber's portrait
Bell Prairie Plantation and Henry Gillette.