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Barrier to the Bays : The Islands of the Coastal Bend and Their Pass /
"Mary Jo O'Rear rounds out her coastal bend trilogy with a deep and engaging look at the prehistory and history of the Texas barrier islands. In Barrier to the Bays, O'Rear captures the deep time of the islands (Mustang, Padre, and San Jose), the bays (Aransas, Corpus Christi, Copano,...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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College Station :
Texas A&M University Press,
[2022]
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| Edición: | First edition. |
| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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| 505 | 0 | |a Early Days -- Prehistory -- Humans -- Explosive Days -- Horse Marines -- Sad Havoc -- Harbingers -- Hellfire -- Entrepreneurial Days -- Herders and Hiders -- Helmsmen -- Harvesters -- Hustling with Hope -- Hard Tracks and Haupt -- Hydrodynamics and Dynamite -- Enterprise Days -- Harbor Home -- Hunters and Hard Hulls -- Hurricanes -- Expansion Days -- Hall's Bayou Enhanced -- Holding Firm -- Hawsepipers -- Henry's Goodbye. | |
| 520 | |a "Mary Jo O'Rear rounds out her coastal bend trilogy with a deep and engaging look at the prehistory and history of the Texas barrier islands. In Barrier to the Bays, O'Rear captures the deep time of the islands (Mustang, Padre, and San Jose), the bays (Aransas, Corpus Christi, Copano, Redfish, and Nueces), and Aransas Pass. From the earliest human settlements to the twentieth century, O'Rear explores the complex interplay between people and economies struggling to survive in a region dominated by indifferent forces of nature. Barrier to the Bays opens with the natural formation and development of the barrier isles and the arrival of Native Americans, Spanish castaways, French explorers, and Catholic missionaries. European settlements on the mainland eventually led to rich commercial development of the area and its bounty as ranching, fishing, and transportation took hold. By the early twentieth century, the people of the Coastal Bend began wrestling with a new drive to create deep-water harbors along the coastline in the face of the ever-present hurricane threat. O'Rear shows that by World War II the region had settled into a kind of "practicality" as tourists and traders took their place among the denizens of the islands and bays. In addition to the stories of familiar historical figures, Barrier to the Bays stresses the importance of technology in the settlement and development of the region. "Nothing could have been achieved among the barriers and bays of the Coastal Bend without the right tools." O'Rear underscores the importance of properly designed sailing vessels and the centrality of navigation technology as an integral part of the barrier isle story"-- |c Provided by publisher. | ||
| 588 | |a Description based on print version record. | ||
| 650 | 7 | |a Coastwise navigation. |2 fast |0 (OCoLC)fst00865829 | |
| 650 | 7 | |a Bays. |2 fast |0 (OCoLC)fst00829042 | |
| 650 | 7 | |a Barrier islands. |2 fast |0 (OCoLC)fst00827755 | |
| 650 | 7 | |a TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Civil / Flood Control. |2 bisacsh | |
| 650 | 7 | |a HISTORY / United States / State & Local / Southwest (AZ, NM, OK, TX) |2 bisacsh | |
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| 650 | 0 | |a Bays |z Texas |z Coastal Bend |x History. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Barrier islands |z Texas |z Coastal Bend |x History. | |
| 651 | 7 | |a Texas |z Coastal Bend. |2 fast |0 (OCoLC)fst01239820 | |
| 651 | 7 | |a Texas |z Aransas Pass (Strait) |2 fast |0 (OCoLC)fst01866913 | |
| 651 | 0 | |a Aransas Pass (Tex. : Strait) |x History. | |
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