The Galveston-Houston Packet: Steamboats on Buffalo Bayou
Hall, Andrew W.![The Galveston-Houston Packet: Steamboats on Buffalo Bayou](https://support.digitalhusky.com/media/annotations/sorted/262/26203883/CHSBZCOP0326203883.jpg)
Many imagine the settlement of the American West as signaled by the dust of the wagon train or the whistle of a locomotive. During the middle decades of the nineteenth century, though, the growth of Texas and points west centered on the seventy-mile water route between Galveston and Houston. This single vital link stood between the agricultural riches of the interior and the mercantile enterprises of the coast, with a round of operations that ...