William R. Childs | Book Review | The Journal of American History, 87.4

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Book Review

Tracks to the Sea: Galveston and Western Railroad Development, 1866–1900. By Earle B. Young. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 1999. xii, 158 pp. $29.95, ISBN 0-89096-883-7.)

Earle B. Young, a retired budget official at the Johnson Space Center of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), has written a companion book to his Galveston and the Great West (1997), in which he focused on the development of the deep-water port. Tracks to the Sea attempts to relate the financial and corporate strategies of the successful railways that served Galveston, Texas, in the late nineteenth century. (He ignores the unsuccessful ventures.) Young intended the two books together to show how Galveston developed before the great hurricane of 1900. For this second book, Young consulted wide-ranging sources from Chicago and Iowa to Boston and Washington, D.C., and mined the Galveston newspapers of the period. Still, separating the story of railway development from the story of the deep-water port confuses the focus; the result is a weak contribution to the historiography of western railway and economic development. . . .

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