Galveston and the 1900 Storm: Catastrophe and Catalyst

by Elizabeth Hayes Turner and Patricia Bellis Bixel

Book Overview

Runner-up, Spur Award for Best Western Nonfiction--Contemporary, Western Writers Of America, 2001

The Galveston storm of 1900 reduced a cosmopolitan and economically vibrant city to a wreckage-strewn wasteland where survivors struggled without shelter, power, potable water, or even the means to summon help. At least 6,000 of the city's 38,000 residents died in the hurricane. Many observers predicted that Galveston would never recover...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 029270884X
• ISBN13: 9780292708846
• Release Date: August 2000
• Publisher: University of Texas Press
• Length: 190 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 10.1" x 8.5"