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Sending Their Beams Over The Coastal Waters To Guide Mariners Into Harbor, Lighthouses Form Part Of The Romance Of America's Past. Here, Available Again, Is The Comprehensive Story Of The Lighthouses And Lightships Of Texas, First Told In 1991 By Historian T. Lindsay Baker And Illustrated With Watercolors By Noted Artist Harold Phenix. After Introducing Readers To Lighthouses And Their Keepers, Baker Provides Chapters Detailing The Surviving Texas Lighthouses. These Include Lights At Brazos Santiago, Point Isabel, Aransas Pass, Matagorda, Halfmoon Reef, Brazos River, Galveston Jetty, Galveston, Bolivar Point, Heald Bank, Sabine Pass, And Sabine Bank. The Story Of The Lighthouses Is One With A Human Face. Readers Will Meet Engineers, Inspectors, And The Men And Women Who Served As Lighthouse Keepers On The Remote Texas Beaches. In A Concluding Chapter, Baker Chronicles The Fate Of The Lights In The Mid-twentieth Century. A New Preface Updates The Condition Of The Various Lighthouses At The Dawn Of The Twenty-first Century. Illustrations -- Foreword / F. Ross Holland -- Preface To The 2001 Edition -- Preface -- Lighting The Texas Coast -- Brazos Santiago -- Point Isabel -- Arnasas Pa

Author

T. Lindsay Baker; Harold Phenix; F. Ross Holland

Publisher

Texas A & M University Press

Published

2001

Language

EN

ISBN

9781585441457

Subjects

Military, History, Travel

Rating

4.7 / 5 (11 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14