The Samuel May Williams Home: The Life and Neighborhood of an Early Galveston Entrepreneur

Built in the winter of 1839-1840, this house, and the Texas pioneer who inhabited it, are the central focus of this thoroughly researched and well-written study of Galveston's merchant elite -- a generation of leaders who did much to shape their city and Texas itself.

Summary

Built in the winter of 1839-1840, this house, and the Texas pioneer who inhabited it, are the central focus of this thoroughly researched and well-written study of Galveston's merchant elite--Gail Borden, Michel Menard, Thomas McKinney, and others--a generation of leaders who did much to shape their city and Texas itself.

Product details

• Authors: Margaret Swett Henson, Deoloce Parmalee, Tshaother
• Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.12.1992
• EAN: 9780876111253
• ISBN: 978-0-87611-125-3
• No. of pages: 52
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 216 mm x 6 mm
• Weight: 100 g
• Series: Fred Rider Cotten Popular Hist; Fred Rider Cotten Popular Hist
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Biographies, autobiographies; Social sciences, law, business > Business > General, dictionaries