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title: "Galveston: A History of the Island"
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# Galveston: A History of the Island

**Brand:** gary cartwright
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- **What is this?** Galveston: A History of the Island by gary cartwright
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Galveston: A History of the Island

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 







  
  
    Great history book
  

*by A***A on Reviewed in the United States on 20 January 2024*

Was done well to tell story of town.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 







  
  
    Used but excellent condition. Seller delivered as promised.
  

*by A***R on Reviewed in the United States on 20 August 2024*

I love to refer this book when asked about our lovely island! I lent my original copy out and never got it back. Happy I have one on my book shelf again!

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    More reporting than history-telling
  

*by R***S on Reviewed in the United States on 23 June 2024*

I’ve admired Gary Cartwright’s writing for years. In the author’s note to Galveston: A History of the Island, Cartwright tells us he is a reporter, not a historian. That is a good thing because this is not a dry piece of history, but rather the book is chockful of great stories. He covers Galveston from the Karankawa Indian days to the pirate era, the Spanish explorer time, the pre- and post-Civil War years, and on to the present (or at least the present at the time the book was written, in 1991.) Having lived in Houston and visited Galveston over the years, I can report not a whole lot as happened in Galveston since 1991. There has been no big boom in development or population to my knowledge. Galveston, once the premier city in Texas, has continued on its way—as it has for the entire twentieth century and into the twenty-first—as a pleasant place to visit and, I suppose, a good place to live. The rich families that controlled it for the last hundred years are perhaps in decline, but another descendant of Galveston’s mobsters (not that he is a mobster himself) has sort of taken over and added touristy developments. Cartwright ends his book with the rise of that developer, Tilman Fertitta, great nephew of one of the gamblers who held tight control over Galveston in the 1950s. As I said, this book is chockful of stories which I found entertaining. But Cartwright’s book tends to sway towards the stories of those powerful civic leaders and tells us less, at times, about the ordinary people and ordinary lives of Galveston. I wanted a book that described what life was like in the city during its various decades. Instead, mostly what I got were tales of dirty dealings among its powerful leaders. That’s well and good and something, I suppose, a reporter would gravitate to. But I wish Cartwright had been a little bit more historian as well.

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