Texas
Gulf Coast
Texas' coast has
as fascinating a history as that other state. Florida might have had
a few more shipwrecks, but why would anyone brag about what bad sailors
they were? Besides, we used to have our own Navy and actually hired
our ships and sailors out to Yucatan to protect them from Mexican
ships. Can Florida say that?
LaSalle liked the Texas Coast so much, he arranged to have his men
kill him there. There are bridges, lighthouses, ferries and piers,
jetties, seagulls and men without peers. Galveston
and Corpus
Christi, remain the popular centers, but the tranquility
of places like Palacios,
Rockport,
and Fulton
make you rethink your home on the range. Even the Comanches found
time to pay the coast a visit. Although the seaport of Linnville
didn't survive the visit. Cattle Barons like Shanghai
Pierce were just barely inland, and Mrs. King set up a
house in Corpus
Christi so that the kids might attend school and soak up
a little more civilization than they were getting on the Ranch.
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