Central Kansas Library System

"Presents an account of the legendary hurricane to assess its destruction of Galveston, role in thousands of deaths, and influence on American history and culture"--Publisher's description. On the afternoon of September 8, 1900, 200-mile-per-hour winds and fifteen-foot waves slammed into Galveston, the prosperous and growing port city on Texas's Gulf Coast. By dawn the next day, when the storm had passed, the city that existed just hours before was...

"In The Overlords, Galveston, Texas belonged to criminal overlords. But they couldn't predict that a Texas Ranger and a beautiful woman would try to shut down America's paradise of gambling. Now, a dangerous brew of mobsters, flappers, traitors, lovers, and lawmen is about to explode in a sin city by the sea"--Amazon.com. "In the Wild Ones, into the 1870s West comes a family of New York City stage performers. But the Fontaine family is unprepared...