The Gulf South Historical Review Table of Contents: 1985-1994
(formerly titled The Gulf Coast Historical Review)
The Gulf South Historical Review is published by the History Department of the University of South Alabama. The table of contents is provided here upon written permission from the copyright holder.
Gulf Coast Historical Review
Vol. 1, No. 1, Fall 1985
Articles:
Old Town, Young City: Early American Mobile, by Harriet E. Amos . . . . . . . . 4
The Long Road to Louisiana: Acadian Exiles and the Britain Incident, by Carl A. Brasseaux . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Gainesville and its Advocate: A Year in the Life of a Mississippi Frontier Town, by Lawrence J. Nelson . . . . . . . 39
Features:
Beauvoir: Jefferson Davis' Home and Biloxi 's Confederate Museum, by Michael Thomason . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
Clio's Notes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
Essay Contest . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
When Downtowns Were the Thing: On the Streets of Gulf Coast Cities in the Roaring Twenties, by Michael Thomason. . . . . . 64
Book Reviews:
Paul M. Gaston, Women of Fair Hope. Howard W. Smith . . . . . . 71
Frank L. Owsley, Jr., Struggle for the Gulf Borderlands: The Creek War and the Battle of New Orleans 1812-1815,
by John D.W. Guice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
George F. Pearce, The U.S. Navy in Pensacola; From Sailing Ships to Naval Aviation, 1825-1930, by W. Robert Houston . . . . . . . 74
C.C. Lockwood, The Gulf Coast : Where Land Meets Sea, by Michael Thomason. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
Martha H. Swain, Pat Harrison: The New Deal Years, by William S. Coker. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
From the Archives:
Cookin' with History....An Old South Catsup Recipe, by George Daniels. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78
Gulf Coast Historical Review
Vol. 1, No. 2, Spring 1986
Articles:
St. Mark's, Apalache and the Creeks, by Robin F. Fabel . . . . . . . 4
Miz Lillie and Her Special School, by James R. McGovern. . . . . . 23
Riveters, Volunteers and WACS: Women in Mobile During World War II, by Patricia G. Harrison. . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
The Mobile Homefront During the Second World War, by Mary Martha Thomas. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
The Cement of Society: Law in the Mississippi Territory, by John D.W. Guice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
Features:
Pensacola 's Seville Square Historic District. . . . . . . . . .100
Clio's Notes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .104
Book Reviews:
Big Mules, Rednecks, Gentlemen and Peckerwoods: Class and Race in Twentieth Century Politics [A review essay of Chester Morgan,
Redneck Liberal: Theodore G. Bilbo and the New Deal; George Sims, The Little Man's Big Friend: James E. Folsom in Alabama Politics:
Carl Grafton and Anne Permaloff, Big Mules and Branchheads], by Samuel L. Webb, Jr. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .106
James Seay Brown, Jr (ed.), Up Before Daylight: Life Histories from the Alabama Writers' Project, 1938-1939, by
Tennant S. McWilliams . . . . . . . . . . . . .129
Jacqueline Olivier Vidrine (ed.), Love's Legacy: The Mobile Marriages Recorded in French, Transcribed, with Annotated Abstracts in English,
1724-1786, by Glen R. Johnson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .130
James C. And Irene Coleman, Guardians on the Gulf: Pensacola Fortifications, 1698-1980. Malcolm Muir, Jr . . .132
Charles L. Sullivan and Murella H. Powell, The Mississippi Gulf Coast : Portrait of a People. Michael Thomason. . . . .133
From the Archives:
A Portrait of the Old South...Aunt Sally Henshaw, by Charles J. Torrey III . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .135
Gulf Coast Historical Review
Vol. 2, No. 1, Fall 1986
Articles:
Le Liberateur: New Orleans ' Free Negro Newspaper, by Timothy F. Reilly . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .5
Public Health Nurses in Mississippi : Good Work in Hard Times. Jack Rogers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Climate of Fear: Violence, Intimidation and Media Manipulation in Reconstruction Mobile, by Stephanie Hardin. . . . . . . 39
Tallahassee : Florida 's Capital in the Roaring Twenties, by Barbara Gene Fisher . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
Features:
Candlelight Christmas at Oakleigh, by Michael Thomason. . . . . . 67
A Letter from Fort Gaines, by Charles Malone Howard . . . . . . . 71
Development of Gulf Shores , Alabama : An Interview with Erie Hall Meyer. Patricia G. Harrison. . . . . . . . . . . 79
Book Reviews:
Harriet Amos, Cotton City: Urban Development in Antebellum Mobile, by Vaughan Stanley . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .104
William S. Coker and Thomas D. Watson, Indian Traders of the Southeastern Spanish Borderlands: Panton, Leslie & Company and
John Forbes & Company, 1783-1847, by Harvey H. Jackson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .105
Gary Huey, Rebel With A Cause: P.D. East, Southern Liberalism, and the Civil Rights Movement, 1953-1971,
by Lewis N. Wynne. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .107
John Hawkins Napier, III, Lower Pearl River 's Piney Woods: Its Land and People, by Lawrence Nelson. . . . . . . . . . . .110
Michael V. R. Thomason, Trying Times: Alabama Photographs, 1917-1945, by James C. Cobb. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .112
From the Archives:
A Key to the Past: A Guide to the Mobile Municipal Archives, by Clifton Dale Foster. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .115
Gulf Coast Historical Review
Vol. 2, No. 2, Spring 1987
Articles:
James Copeland and Sheriff Pitts: A Gulf Coast Legend, by James Penick. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .5
Understanding Southwest Alabama 's Architectural Heritage: Mobile and Baldwin Counties, by Devereaux Bemis and John Sledge . . . . . . . 33
Camille: The Mississippi Gulf Coast in the Coils of the Snake, by Charles L. Sullivan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
Features:
Early Twentieth Century Hurricanes along the Central Gulf Coast: A Photo Essay. Michael V. Thomason . . . . . . . . . 79
Comments and Controversy: A Critique and Response to Climate of Fear: Violence, Intimidation and Media Manipulation in Reconstruction Mobile,
1865-1876, by Ralph Poore and Stephanie Hardin. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
Book Reviews:
Ronald V. Evans (ed.), Threads of Tradition and Culture Along the Gulf Coast, by Murella Hebert Powell. . . . . . . . 88
Clinton P. King and Meriem A. Barlow, Naturalization Records: Mobile , Alabama, by 1833-1906. Joseph E. Brent. . . . 89
Philip C. Kolin (ed.), Shakespeare in the South: Essays on Performance, by David K. Sauer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
Virginia Parks, Pensacola : Spaniards to Space-Age, by Charles L. Sullivan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
Charles Grayson Summersell, CSS Alabama : Builder, Captain and Plans. Michael V. Thomason. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94
From the Archives:
The Controversial Surrender of Fort Gaines, August 1864, by John H. Friend, Jr. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97
Gulf Coast Historical Review
Vol. 3, No. 1, Fall 1987
Articles:
From Fort to Port, An Architectural History of Mobile, 1711-1918; the High Victorian Period, 1880-1900, by Elizabeth B. Gould. . . . . . . . . . .5
Urban Problems and Responses in British Pensacola, by Robert R. Rea . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Incompetence, Disorganization, and Lack of Determination: The Federal Assault on Port Hudson , May 27, 1863,
by Lawrence L. Hewitt. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
How General Andrew Jackson Learned of the British Plans Before the Battle of New Orleans . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
Features:
A Visit to Fort Morgan , Mobile 's Guardian on the Gulf, by Joseph E. Brent . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97
Letter to the Editor: The Elusive British-American Trust Company, by Jerry R. Yares . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .103
Book Reviews:
Jason Berry, Jonathan Foose, and Tad Jones, Up From the Cradle of Jazz: New Orleans Music Since World War II,
by Joaquin M. Holloway, Jr . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .105
John B. Boles and Evelyn Thomas Nolen (eds.), Interpreting Southern History: Historiographical Essays in Honor of
Sanford W. Higginbotham, by Peyton McCrary. . . . . . . . . .106
Virginia Van der Veer Hamilton , Lister Hill: Statesman from the South, by Samuel L. Webb. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .108
Reginald Horsman, Josiah Nott of Mobile : Southerner, Physician, and Racial Theorist, by Michael O'Brien. . . . . .110
From the Archives:
Letters from England, by Jeremy Black . . . . . . . . . . . . . .112
Gulf Coast Historical Review
Vol. 3, No. 2, Spring 1988
Articles:
A Historical Review of Three Gulf Coast Creole Communities, by D.C. LaFoy. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .6
Erwin B. Craighead, The New South, and Cuba Libre, by Tennant S. McWilliams . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
The Swiss and German Connection: The First Migration to the Gulf Coast Under French Colonial Rule, by Ellen C. Merrill . . . . . . 42
Features:
Acadian Village, Lafayette, Louisiana, by Carl A. Brasseaux . . . . . . . 62
A Description of Santa Rosa Peninsula in 1925, by Brian Rucker . . . . . . . . 67
Book Reviews:
Carl A. Brasseaux, The Founding of New Acadia: The Beginning of Acadian Life in Louisiana , 1765-1803, by Gary B. Mills. . . . . . 82
Richard C. Cortner, A Scottsboro Case in Mississippi : The Supreme Court and Brown v. Mississippi, by Wythe Holt . . . . 84
Robin F.A. Fabel, Bombast and Broadsides: The Lives of George Johnstone, by David Sloan. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
John Alfred Heitmann, The Modernization of the Louisiana Sugar Industry, by Robert H. McKenzie . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
Melton A. McLaurin, Separate Pasts: Growing Up White in the Segregated South, by Wayne Greenshaw. . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
Bailey Thomson and Patricia L. Meador, Shreveport , A Photographic Remembrance, 1873-1949, by Robert E. Snyder. . . 90
From the Archives:
A Statesman and a Spudster: Senator Allen J. Ellender of Louisiana, by Michael James Foret. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92
Gulf Coast Historical Review
Vol. 4, No. 1, Fall 1988
Articles:
Anglo Merchants and Capital Migration in Spanish Colonial New Orleans, 1763-1803, by Light T. Cummins. . . . . . . . . . .7
Natchez Under-the-Hill: Reform and Retribution in Early Natchez, by Michael F. Beard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
The Distinctive Character of a Bayou Community: Continuity and Change in Bayou La Batre from Prehistoric to Recent Times,
by Diane E. Silvia. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
In the Shadow of Scottsboro: The 1937 Robert Hinds Case, by Walter T. Howard. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
Features:
The Mobile Brewery, by Kip Sharpe. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
The Seafood Industry Museum, Biloxi, by Michael Thomason . . . . . 97
Book Reviews:
Elliot Ashkenazi, The Business of Jews in Louisiana, 1840-1875, by Joy Jackson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .100
James Saxon Childers, A Novel About a White Man and a Black Man, by Jean P. McIver. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .102
Robin F.A. Favel, The Economy of British West Florida, 1763-1873, by Amy Turner Bushnell . . . . . . . . . . . . . .104
Elizabeth Barrett Gould, From Fort to Port, An Architectural History of Mobile, Alabama, 1711-1918, by Robert O. Mellown .. . . . . . . . .105
Regina Moreno Kirchoff Mandrell, Our Family: Facts and Fancies, The Moreno and Related Families, by Glen R. Johnson . . . . . . . . . .107
Grady McWhiney, Cracker Culture: Celtic Ways in the Old South, by Lewis N. Wynne. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .109
From the Archives:
The Florida Historical Society. Guy Procher Harrison . . . . .111
Gulf Coast Historical Quarterly
Vol. 4, No. 2, Spring 1989
Articles:
Civil War and Reconstruction on the Gulf Coast Military Life an Developments: Fort Pickens and the Secession Crisis:
January-February 1861, Edwin C. Bearss . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .6
Life on the Front as Reflected in Soldiers' Letters, Dean DeBolt . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Incidents on the Blockade of Mobile, Frank L. Owsley, Jr. . . . 38
Commentary. William N. Still, Jr. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
Inside the Confederacy: Pensacola 's Civil War Art: Benjamin LaBree and Thomas Nast, Jack D.L. Holmes. . . . . . . . . . . . .50
Slavery and Class Tensions in Confederate Georgia, Clarence L. Mohr. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
New Orleans and Confederate Louisiana 's Monetary Policy: The Confederate Microcosm, James F. Morgan . . . . . . . . 73
Commentary, Charles R. Wilson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
Families and Other Participants: The Diary of Ann Quigley, Russell E. Belous . . . . . . . . . . 89
The Moreno Family of Pensacola and The Civil War, William S. Coker. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .100
Dear Aunt Lydia : A Family's View of the Florida Gulf Coast During the Civil War, James H. O'Donnell III. . . . . . . .126
Commentary, Joe Gray Taylor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .133
Reconstruction:
Trials of a Unionist: Gustavus Horton, Military Mayor of Mobile During Reconstruction, Harriet E. Amos . . . . . . .134
The American Missionary Association and Blacks on the Gulf Coast During Reconstruction, Harriet E. Amos. . . . .152
Wartime Unionists, Unreconstructed Rebels and Andrew Johnson's Amnesty Program in the Reconstruction Debacle of
Jackson County, Florida, Jerrell H. Shofner. . . . . . .162
Commentary. William C. Harris. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .172
Gulf Coast Historical Review
Vol. 5, No. 1, Fall 1989
Articles:
The Past is Gone, Ulysses S. Grant Visits Mobile, William Warren Rogers, Jr . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .7
The Diocese of Galveston and War, 1861-1865, James T. Moore . . . . . . . . . 21
Diary of May Jordan , Washington County , Alabama 1912-1914, Elisa M. Baldwin. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Book Reviews:
Richard M. Bernard and Bradley R. Rice, eds., Sunbelt Cities: Politics and Growth Since World War II, Robert B. Fairbanks . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
Lucille Mallon Connick, comp., Lists of Ships Passengers, Mobile, Alabama, 1838-1860, Col. Glen R. Johnson. . . . . . 67
Dave Davis, ed., Perspectives on Gulf Coast Prehistory. . . . . . . . 69
Eli N. Evans , Judah P. Benjamin: The Jewish Confederate, James Marten. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
Laura Nan Fairley and James T. Dawson, Paths to the Past: An Overview History of Lauderdale County, Mississippi, Joseph E. Brent . . . . . 72
Guillermo Nanez Falcon, ed., The Favrot Family Papers: A Documentary Chronicle of Early Louisiana, C. Howard Nichols . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
Virginia O. Foscue, Place Names in Alabama, Margaret E. Armbrester. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
Celine Fremiaux Garcia, Celine: Remembering Louisiana, 1850-1871, ed. Patrick J. Geary, Mathe Allain. . . . . . . 77
Mary Gehman and Nancy Ries, Women and New Orleans : A History, Angel Kwolek-Folland. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
Benjamin W. Griffith, Jr., McIntosh and Weatherford, Creek Indian Leaders, Joel W. Martin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
Edward F. Haas, Political Leadership in a Southern City, New Orleans in the Progressive Era, 1896-1902, Lynette B. Wren . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
John B. Hann, Apalachee: The Land Between the Rivers, Greg A. Waselkov. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
Lawrence Lee Hewitt, Port Hudson , Confederate Bastion on the Mississippi, Craig L. Symonds. . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
Robert Lee Maril, Cannibals and Condos: Texans and Texas Along the Gulf Coast, Robin W. Doughty . . . . . . . . . . 87
David G. McComb, Galveston : A History, Roger Biles. . . . . . . 89
Richebourg Gaillard McWilliams, trans. and ed., Fleur de Lys and Calumet . John A. Dickinson . . . . . . . . . . . . 90
Gilbert Mers, Working the Waterfront: The Ups and Downs of a Rebel Longshoreman. Eric Arnesen. . . . . . . . . . . 92
William Warren Rogers, Outposts on the Gulf Saint George Island and Apalachicola from Early Exploration to World War II,
by Tennant S. McWilliams. . . . . . . . . . . . 94
James A. Servies, ed., The Log of H.M.S. Mentor, 1780-1891: A New Account of the British Navy at Pensacola,
by Michael J. Crawford . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95
Elizabeth Silverthorne, Ashbel Smith of Texas : Pioneer, Patriot, Statesman, 1805-1886, Dorothy D. DeMoss . . . . . 97
Thomas E. Simmons, The Brown Condor: The True Adventures of John C. Robinson, Earl H. Tilford, Jr . . . . . . . . . 98
William N. Still, Jr., Iron Afloat: The Story of the Confederate Ironclads, William M. Fowler, Jr . . . . . . .100
John Edward Weems, A Weekend in September, Robin W. Doughty. . . . . . . . 87
Tom Henderson Wells, Commodore Moore and the Texas Navy, Edwin C. Bearss . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .101
Stephen R. Wise, Lifeline of the Confederacy, Blockade Running During the Civil War, Donald Willett . . . . . . .103
From the Archives:
Lauderdale County Department of Archives and History: Doing Local History Right!, Joseph E. Brent . . . . . . . . . . .105
Gulf Coast Historical Review
Vol. 5, No. 2, Spring 1990
Keynote Address:
The Men and the Ships of the British Attack on Fort Bowyer--February 1815, Sir Robert Ricketts . . . . . . . . . . . . .7
The Colonial Era: How to Fight a Pirate: Provincials, Royalists, and the Defense of Minor Ports During the Age of Buccaneers,
Amy T. Bushnell . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Suppressing the Anglo-American Trade at Mobile , 1733-1737, Michael J. Foret. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Authenticating Pierre Viaud's Shipwreck and Adventures, Robin F.A. Fabel. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
Lieutenant Hutchins to the Rescue! The Wreck and Recovery of the Mercury, 1772, Robert R. Rea. . . . . . . . . . . . 56
The Nineteenth Century: Jean Laffite, the Baratarians, and the Historical Geography of Piracy in the Gulf of Mexico, Robert C. Vogel . . . . . 63
The Negro Fort, James W. Covington . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78
Charles E. Hawkins: Sailor of Three Republics, James M. Denham . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92
The Roots of a Maritime Fortune: E.K. Collins and the New York-Gulf Coast Trade, 1821-1848, Edward W. Sloan. . . . . . 104
From Old to New South Trade in Mobile , 1850-1900, Harriet E. Amos . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .114
Pensacola , the Deep-Water Harbor of the Gulf: Its Development, 1825-1930, George Pearce. . . . . . . . . . .128
The Twentieth Century:
Gulf Coast Gold: The Natural Sponge, Robert E. Snyder. . . . .141
Demagogue and Industrialist: Andrew Jackson Higgins and Higgins Industries, John A. Heitmann . . . . . . . . . . .152
U-Boats in the Gulf The Undersea War of 1942, Allen Cronenberg. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .163
Still They Sail: Shipbuilding in Tampa During World War II, Lewis N. Wynne and Carolyn J. Barnes. . . . . . . . . . . .179
Gulf Coast Historical Review
Vol. 6, No. 1, Fall 1990
Articles:
Archaeology of Old Mobile , 1702-1711, Gregory A. Waselkov. . . . . . . . 6
The Cotton Economy of the Apalachicola-Chattahoochee River Valley, Lynn Willoughby. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
The Civil War on the Western Gulf : The Diary of Thomas H. DuVal of Texas, James Marten . . . . . . . . . . 38
Shoulder to Shoulder--Mobile 's Shotgun Houses, John Sledge. . . . . . . 56
Victor H. Schiro, Hurricane Betsy and the Forgiveness Bill, Edward F. Haas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
Book Reviews:
Arthur W. Bergeron, Jr., Guide to Louisiana Confederate Military Units, 1862-1865, Terry L. Jones. . . . . . . . . 92
Robert D. Bullard, ed., In Search of the New South: The Black Urban Experience in the 1970s and 1980s, James SoRelle. . . . . . . . . 93
Gilbert C. Din, The Canary Islanders of Louisiana, Lawrence N. Powell. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95
Michael W. Fitzgerald, The Union League Movement in the Deep South: Politics and Agricultural Change During Reconstruction,
Carl H. Moneyhon . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97
Wayne Flynt, Poor But Proud: Alabama 's Poor Whites, Robert T. Hawkes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98
Horton Foote, The Selected One-Act Plays of Horton Foote, ed. Gerald C. Wood. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .100
Jimmie Lewis Franklin, Back to Birmingham: Richard Arrington, Jr. and His Times, Alan S. Thompson . . . . . .102
Robert Gamble, The Alabama Catalog, Historic American Buildings Survey: A Guide to the Early Architecture of the State and
Historic Architecture in Alabama : A Primer of Styles and Types, 1910-1930, John S. Sledge. . . . . . 103
Jim Dan Hill, The Texas Navy: In Forgotten Battles and Shirtsleeve Diplomacy, Robert L. Kerby . . . . . . . . . .105
Onnie Lee Logan, Motherwit: An Alabama Midwife's Story, ed. Katherine Clark, Mary R. McCarl. . . . . . . . . . . . . .107
Char Miller and Heywood T. Sanders eds., Urban Texas: Politics and Development, Michael Collins. . . . . . . . .109
Ronald Numbers and Todd L. Savitt, eds., Science and Medicine in the Old South, Joel D. Howell. . . . . . . . .110
Robert R. Rafferty, Texas Coast, James Glass . . . . . . . . .112
Woodward B. Skinner, The Apache Rock Crumbles: The Captivity of Geronimo's People, Devereaux Bemis. . . . . .113
Henry Sutherland and Jerry E. Brown, The Federal Road Through Georgia, the Creek Nation, and Alabama, Harvey H. Jackson . . .115
Ted Tunnell, ed., Carpetbagger from Vermont : The Autobiography of Marshall Harvey Twitchell, Paul Escott . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .116
Maxine Turner, Navy Gray: A Story of the Confederate Navy on the Chattahoochee and Apalachicola Rivers, Harold Wilson . . . . . . .118
From the Archives:
Special Collections Department, John C. Pace Library, University of West Florida . Dean Debolt. . . . . . . . . .120
Gulf Coast Historical Review
Vol. 6, No. 2, Spring 1991
Articles:
The Tecumseh: Sunken Treasure in Alabama Waters, H. Joseph Curtis. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .6
The Battle of Mauvila, Causes and Consequences, Jay Higginbotham. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
The Navy as Entrepreneur: Naval Radio Stations on the Gulf Coast Before the Depression, Vincent Ponko. . . . . . 34
An Aesthete at Large: Oscar Wilde in Mobile, William Warren Rogers and Robert David Ward . . . . . . . . 49
Book Reviews:
Thomas Perkins Abernethy, The Formative Period of Alabama, 1815-1828, Paul M. Pruitt, Jr. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
Keith Carter, The Blue Man, J. Jack Hurley . . . . . . . . . . 66
Don H. Doyle, New Men, New Cities, New South: Atlanta, Nashville, Charleston, Mobile, 1860-1910, James M. Russell . . . . . . . . . . 67
John Kent Folmar, From That Terrible Field: Civil War Letters of James M. Williams, Twenty-First Alabama
Infantry Volunteers, Homer H. Blass. . . . . . . . . . . . 68
Walter J. Fraser, Charleston ! Charleston !: The History of a Southern City, Kathleen C. Berkeley. . . . . . . . . . . 70
Ned J. Jenkins and Richard A. Krause, The Tombigbee Watershed in Southeastern Prehistory, David Dye. . . . . . 72
Michael L. Kurtz and Morgan D. Peoples, Earl K. Long: The Saga of Uncle Earl and Louisiana Politics, Garry Boulard . . . . . . . . 74
Mills Lane, Architecture of the Old South: Mississippi and Alabama, Nicholas H. Holmes, Jr. . . . . . . . . . . . 75
Lawrence H. Larsen, The Rise of the Urban South, Kathleen C. Berkeley . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
Kevin M. McCarthy, Florida Lighthouses. Michael Thomason . . . . . . . . . . 76
William Morrison Robinson, Jr., The Confederate Privateers, Spencer C. Tucker . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78
Jerrell Shofner , Florida Portrait: A Pictorial History of Florida, Robert A. Taylor . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . 79
S. Frederick Starr, Southern Comfort: The Garden District of New Orleans, 1800-1900, John C. Ferguson. . . . . . . . 81
James F. Sulzby, Jr., Historic Alabama Hotels and Resorts, Leah Rawls Atkins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
David Hurst Thomas, ed., Columbian Consequences: Archaeological and Historical Perspectives on the Spanish Borderlands East,
William F. Keegan. . . . . . . . 84
From the Archives:
Museum of the City of Mobile , Roy V. Tallon. . . . . . . . . . 87
Index to Volumes 1 through 6:
Author/Editor Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
Title Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .102
Gulf Coast Historical Review
Vol. 7, No. 1, Fall 1991
Articles:
Close Encounter With a Creature of the Finny Tribe: Louisiana 's Sea Monster Sighting of 1856, Carl A. Brasseaux
and H. Dickson Hoese. . . . . . . . . . . .6
No Compromise: The End of Presidential Reconstruction in Mobile, Alabama, January-May, 1867, Joseph E. Brent. . . . 18
The Canal Era in West Florida : 1821-1845, Joe Knetsch. . . . . 38
Edward Bloch's Memoirs: The Early Years, Samuel Eichold. . . . 52
Ma's Place: Mary Ann Patout and the Modernization of Enterprise Plantation, 1883-1907. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
Review Essay:
To Antique and New Lands: Travels Without as Journeys Within, James B. McSwain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
[A review essay of Frederic Trautman, ed. and trans., Travels on the Lower Mississippi 1879-1880: A Memoir of Ernst von Hesse-Wartegg; Vincent Kohler and David R. Ward, eds., Harlan Hubbard Journals 1929-1944; Harlan Hubbard, Shantyboat: A River Way of Life; Harlan Hubbard: Life and Work.]
Book Reviews:
Debbie Fleming Caffery, Carry Me Home: Louisiana Sugar Country Photographs. Frank de Caro . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
J.L. Chestnutt and Julia Cass, Black in Selma: The Uncommon Life of J.L. Chestnutt. Karen K. Miller . . . . . 94
Alan Govenar, The Early Years of Rhythm & Blues: Focus on Houston, David Evans . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96
James J. Horgan, Pioneer College: The Centennial History of Saint Leo College , Saint Leo Abbey, and Holy Name Priory,
Joseph W. Newman . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98
Robert P. Ingalls, Urban Vigilantes in the New South, 1882-1936, Mary A. DeCredico . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .101
Samuel Kinser, Carnival, American Style: Mardi Gras at New Orleans and Mobile, Walter B. Edgar. . . . . . . . . .103
James Marten, Texas Divided, Loyalty, and Dissent in the Lone Star State, 1856-1874, Adrian N. Anderson . . . . . .104
Jerald T. Milanich and Susan Milbrath, eds., First Encounters: Spanish Explorations in the Caribbean and the United States, 1492-1570,
David H. Thomas. . . . .106
Robert W. Neuman, An Introduction to Louisiana Archaeology, Jeffrey M. Mitchem. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .108
William H. Nulty, Confederate Florida : The Road to Oustee, Joseph E. Brent . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .110
Ted Ownby, Subduing Satan: Religion, Recreation, and Manhood in the Rural South, 1865-1920, David E. Harrell . . . . . . . . . . .111
Clifton Paisley, The Red Hills of Florida , 1528-1865, Robert R. Rea . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .112
Lauren C. Post, Cajun Sketches, from the Prairies of Southwest Louisiana, David W. Moore. . . . . . . . . . . .114
Loren Schweninger, Black Property Owners in the South, 1790-1915, Whittington B. Johnson. . . . . . . . . . . . .115
Thomas E. Simmons, Escape from Archangel, Stephen Hathaway . . . . . . . . . 116
E.B. Sledge, With the Old Breed at Peleliu and Okinawa, Burton Wright III . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .118
Michael Tadman, Speculators and Slaves, Masters, Traders, and Slaves in the Old South, Christopher S. Johnson. . . .120
Daniel H. Thomas, Fort Toulouse : The French Outpost at the Alabamas on the Coosa, Michael James Foret . . . . . .121
John Wilds and Ira Harkey, Alton Ochsner, Surgeon of the South, John Duffy. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .123
From the Archives:
University of South Alabama Archives. George H. Ewert. . . . .125
Gulf Coast Historical Review
Vol. 7, No. 2, Spring 1992
Articles:
Fort Toulouse and the North American Southeast, 1700-1764, Ethan A. Grant. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .6
Governor Henry Ellis and the American Colonial Frontier, Edward J. Cashin. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Denys Rolle and Indian Policy in British East Florida, James M. Denham . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Prelude to Manifest Destiny: The United States and West Florida, 1910-1911, Robert Taylor. . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Book Reviews:
Barry Gene Ancelet, Jay D. Edwards, and Glen Pitre, Cajun Country, Carolyn Ware. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
Eric Arnesen, Waterfront Workers of New Orleans : Race, Class, and Politics, 1863-1923, Stephen H. Norwood . . . . 65
Helmut Blume, The German Coast During the Colonial Era, 1722-1803, Carl A. Brasseaux . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
William O. Bryant, Cahaba Prison and Sultana Disaster, Bruce Turner. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
Joseph G. Dawson, III, ed., The Louisiana Governors: From Iberville to Edwards, Harral E. Landry . . . . . . . . . . 70
Frank de Caro, Folklife in Louisiana Photography: Images of Tradition, James Guimond. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
Prescott N. Dunbar, The New Orleans Museum of Art: The First Seventy-Five Years, Megan Farrell. . . . . . . . . . 73
Samuel Eichold, ed., History of Medicine: University of South Alabama College of Medicine, Mobile, Alabama, Vol. 1,
Naomi Rogers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
Robin F.A. Fabel, trans. and ed., Shipwreck and Adventures of Monsieur Pierre Viaud, William Warren Rogers. . . . . . 76
Joe R. Feagin, Free Enterprise City : Houston in Political and Economic Perspective, Martin V. Melosi . . . . . . . . 78
Gulf City Cook Book, Compiled by the Ladies of the St. Francis Street Methodist Episcopal Church, South Mobile, Alabama, 1878,
Introduction by George H. Daniels, Kathryn E. Holland Braund . . . . . . . 79
Jay Higginbotham, Old Mobile: Fort Louis de la Louisiane, 1702-1711, John Sledge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
Paul E. Hoffman, A New Andalucia and a Way to the Orient: The American Southeast During the Sixteenth Century, Robert S. Weddle . . . 81
J. Myrle Kennedy, Dauphin Island : French Possession, 1699-1763, John Sledge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
Edward A. Mueller, Perilous Journeys: A History of Steamboating on the Chattahoochee, Apalachicola, and Flint Rivers, 1828-1928,
Edith McCall. . . . . . . . . . . 85
Bruce J. Schulman, From Cotton Belt to Sun Belt: Federal Policy, Economic Development, and the Transformation of the South,
1938-1980, Michael V. Namorato . . . . . . . 87
John Michael Vlach, The American Tradition in Decorative Arts, Daniel C. Littlefield. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88
From the Archives:
The Historic Pensacola Preservation Board, George H. Ewert . . . . . . . . 91
Gulf Coast Historical Review
Vol. 8, No. 1, Fall 1992
Discovery and Exploration on the Gulf Coast
Articles:
Mythology and Discovery: Welsh Exploration of the Gulf Coast in the Twelfth Century., Dean DeBolt. . . . . . . . . .5
Ships in the Exploration of La Florida, Roger C. Smith . . . . 18
Exploration of the Texas Coast : Alvarez De Pineda to La Salle, Robert C. Weddle.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Nature in Cortes's Cartas de Relacion: A Utilitarian Perspective, Thomas M. Longton . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Hernando De Soto : Saint or Sadist? Hampton Dunn. . . . . . . . 56
El Camino Real: Lifeline of Colonial Texas, Jesus F. de la Teja . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
Perrier's Water: Roullet's 1732 Exploration of the Pearl River, John Hawkins Napier III . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
Armchair Adventurers and Horseback Botanists: Explorations of Florida 's Natural History, 1763-1800, James H. O'Donnell III. . . . . . 85
Encounters Up the Mississippi, Yazoo, and Black Rivers, 1773: The Explorers of the Company of Military Adventures,
Robin F.A. Fabel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95
William Howland Robertson: His Early Years on the Gulf Coast, 1804-1808, Kit C. Carter III. . . . . . . . . . . .104
Where the Buffalo Roamed: American Bison on the Gulf Coast in the Age of Exploration, Brian R. Rucker . . . . .114
Gulf Coast Historical Review
Vol. 8, No. 2, Spring 1993
Articles:
Governor Bienville and the Fate of French Louisiana, Russell W. Strong . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .6
The East Gulf Blockading Squadron and the U.S. Second Florida Cavalry, George E. Buker . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
An Ornament to the City: Mobile 's Government Street Presbyterian Church, John S. Sledge. . . . . . . . . . . . 36
James Douglas Martin and the Alabama Republican Resurgence, 1962-1965, Billy B. Hathorn. . . . . . . . . . 52
The Non-Partisan Voters League of Mobile, Alabama : Its Founding and Major Accomplishments, Keith Nicholls . . . . 74
Book Reviews:
Michael Allen, Western Rivermen, 1763-1861: Ohio and Mississippi Boatmen and the Myth of the Alligator Horse, Ronald E. Shaw . . . . 89
John M. Belohlavek and Lewis N. Wynne, eds., Divided We Fall: Essays on Confederate Nation-Building, Vernon L. Volpe . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
Arthur W. Bergeron, Jr., Confederate Mobile, Joseph E. Brent . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94
Bruce Clayton, W. J. Cash: A Life, John David Smith. . . . . . 96
Robert B. Fairbanks and Kathleen Underwood, eds, Essays on Sunbelt Cities and Recent Urban America, James B. Crooks . . . . . . . . . 98
John C. Fredrikson, comp., Shield of Republic/Sword of Empire: A Bibliography of United States Military Affairs, 1783-1846,
William Glen Robertson . . . . . . . .101
Marcel Giraud, A History of French Louisiana, Gayle K. Brunelle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .103
Allen Johnston Going, Bourbon Democracy in Alabama 1874-1890, Paul M. Pruitt, Jr. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .105
Martia Graham Goodson, ed., Chronicles of Faith: The Autobiography of Frederick D. Patterson, Patricia C. Griffin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .134
Minetta Altgelt Goyne, A Life Among the Texas Flora: Ferdinand Lindheimer's Letters to George Engelmann, Frederic Trautmann. . . . . . .107
Nathaniel Cheairs Hughes, Jr., The Battle of Belmont: Grant Strikes South, Charles L. Lufkin . . . . . . . . . .109
Robert W. Johannsen, Lincoln , the South, and Slavery: The Political Dimension, Ann J. Bailey . . . . . . . . . .112
Erle Johnston , Mississippi 's Defiant Years, 1953-1973: An Interpretive Documentary with Personal Experiences, Chester M. Morgan . . . . .114
Robert L. Kerby, Kirby Smith's Confederacy: The Trans-Mississippi South, 1863-1865, Robert Garth Scott . . . . . 118
Robert A. Margo, Race and Schooling in the South, 1880-1950: An Economic History, Irvin D. Solomon . . . . .121
Joel Martin, Sacred Revolt: The Muskogee 's Struggle for a New World, Joel Wilkins. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .123
Nancy Smith Midgette, To Foster the Spirit of Professionalism: Southern Scientists and State Academics of Science, Eric H. Christianson . . . .125
Julian Lee Rayford, Cottonmouth, John S. Sledge. . . . . . . .127
Robert R. Rea, Major Robert Farmer of Mobile, John T. Juricek . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .129
Robert N. Snyder and Jack B. Moore, Pioneer Commercial Photography: The Burgert Brothers, Tampa , Florida, Melton A. McLaurin. . . . . . . .132
Louise Westling,. trans. and ed., He Included Me: The Autobiography of Sarah Rice, Patricia C. Griffin . . . . .134
From the Archives:
Florida State Archives, Florida Photographic Collection, Joan P. Morris. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .140
Gulf Coast Historical Review
Vol. 9, No. 1, Fall 1993
Articles:
Voices from Alabama : A Twentieth Century Mosaic, J. Mack Lofton, Jr. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .6
In Defense of their Creole Culture: The Free Creoles of Color of New Orleans, Mobile, and Pensacola, Virginia Gould. . . . . . . . 26
War Council in Pensacola, January 17, 1861, Charles L. Lufkin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
The Beginning of Military Reconstruction in Mobile, Alabama, May-November 1867, Billy G. Hinson. . . . . . . . 65
Tarpon Springs: From Health Resort to Ethnic Tourist Haven, 1880-1991, Holly Simpson-Walker . . . . . . . . . . 84
Book Reviews:
Piers Anthony, Tatham Mound, Dalvan M. Coger . . . . . . . . . 99
Albert Belisle Davis, Marquis at Bay, Charles Belcher, Jr. . . . . . . 101
Donald E. DeVore and Joseph Logsdon, Crescent City Schools: Public Education in New Orleans 1841-1991, Wayne J. Urban. . .103
Ann Brewster Dobie, ed., Something in Common: Contemporary Louisiana Stories, Denise Wenner. . . . . . .105
Charles East, ed., The Civil War Diary of Sarah Morgan, Marian Elizabeth Strobel. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .107
Paul D. Escott and David R. Goldfield, eds., The South for New Southerners, Joseph A. Tomberlin . . . . . . . . .109
Lawrence E. Estaville, Jr., Confederate Neckties: Louisiana Railroads in the Civil War, John Tricamo . . . .111
Robert S. Graetz, Montgomery: A White Preacher's Memoir, Glenn T. Eskew. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .113
Pamela Grundy, You Always Think of Home: A Portrait of Clay County, Alabama, Robert C. Dinwiddie. . . . . . . . .127
Wiley L. Housewright, A History of Music and Dance in Florida, 1565-1865, Stephen Erdely . . . . . . . . . . . .116
Robert J. Huckshorn, ed., Government and Politics in Florida, Kent K. Kaster II . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .118
Robert J. Jakeman, The Divided Skies: Establishing Flight Training at Tuskegee, Alabama, 1934-1942, Jim Herring. . .120
Terry L. Jones, ed., The Civil War Memoirs of William J. Seymour: Reminiscences of a Louisiana Tiger, Mark A. Snell . . . . . . . . . . .122
Kenneth J. Lipartito and Joseph A. Pratt, Baker & Botts in the Development of Modern Houston, Irvin M. May, Jr. . . .125
Dale Maharidge, And Their Children After Them: The Legacy of Let Us Now Praise Famous Men: James Agee, Walker Evans,
and the Rise and Fall of Cotton in the South, Robert C. Dinwiddie . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .127
Hank Margeson, photographer, Quail Plantations of South Georgia and North Florida, Stuart A. Marks . . . . . . . .132
Laurence C. Walker, The Southern Forest : A Chronicle, Henry C. Dethloff . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .133
John D. Winters, The Civil War in Louisiana, Quintard Taylor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .135
Lewis N. Wynne and Robert A. Taylor, ed., This War So Horrible, The Civil War Diary of Hiram Smith Williams, David S. Neel, Jr. . . . . . . .137
Robert H. Zieger, ed., Organized Labor in the Twentieth-Century South, Robin L. Einhorn. . . . . . . . .139
From the Archives:
Mobile Public Library, Local History and Genealogy Division, Holly Rowland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .142
Gulf Coast Historical Review
Vol. 9, No. 2, Spring 1994
Articles:
Women of Brains and Standing: The New Orleans League of Women Voters, 1934-1950, Pamela Tyler. . . . . . . . . . . .7
A Dozen Years in the Political Wilderness: Alabama Republicans Challenge the One-Party System, 1966-1978, Billy B. Hathorn . . . . . 19
Conflict at the Water's Edge Ollinger & Bruce, Frederick G. Howard, and Confederate Naval Gunboat Construction on the
Lowe Blackwater River, 1861-1862, Nathan Woolsey. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
The Centro Asturiano Cemetery : An Immigrant Landmark in Early Twentieth Century Florida, Robert Brinkman and Sandi A. Dunlap . . . . . 69
Book Reviews:
Howard Beeth and Cary D. Wintz, eds., Black Dixie: Afro-Texan History and Culture in Houston, David G. McComb . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
Dorothy H. Brown and Barbara C. Ewell, eds., Louisiana Women Writers: New Essays and a Comprehensive Bibliography,
Alice Hall Petry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
Caleb Coker, ed., The News from Brownsville: Helen Chapman's Letters from the Texas Military Frontier, 1848-1852, Karol Kelley. . . . . . . . . 84
Alice E. Cowdrey, War and Healing: Stanhope Bayne-Jones and the Maturing of American Medicine, James Harvey Young. . . . 86
Light Townsend Cummins, Spanish Observers and the American Revolution, 1775-1783, Paul E. Hoffman . . . . . . . . . . 88
Baby Dodds, The Baby Dodds Story: As Told to Larry Gara, David Evans . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90
Joe P. Dunn and Howard L. Preston, eds., The Future South: A Historical Perspective for the Twenty-first Century, Joseph A. Tomberlin . . . 92
Paul E. Durrenberger, It's All Politics: South Alabama's Seafood Industry, Louis R. Smith, Jr . . . . . . . . . . . 94
Paul D. Escott, ed., W.J. Cash and the Minds of the South, Robert E. Snyder. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96
Paul Finkelman, ed., The Struggle for Equal Education, Irvin D. Solomon. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98
Joseph A. Fry, John Tyler Morgan and the Search for Southern Autonomy, Timothy Hoff. . . . . . . . . . . . . .101
David King Gleason, Baton Rouge, John Ferguson . . . . . . . .104
Judith Lee Hallock, Braxton Bragg and Confederate Defeat, Vol. 2., Marvin R. Cain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .116
Arnold R. Hirsh and Joseph Logsdon, eds., Creole New Orleans: Race and Americanization, Sylvia R. Oney. . . . .105
Elizabeth Jacoway, Dan T. Carter, Lester C. Lamon, and Robert C. McMath, Jr., eds., The Adaptable South: Essays in Honor of
George Brown Tindall., Fred Ragan. . . .108
Richard S. Kennedy, ed., Literary New Orleans : Essays and Meditations, Dorothy H. Brown. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .111
Malcolm C. McMillan, The Alabama Confederate Reader, Robert S. Saunders, Jr. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .113
Grady McWhiney, Braxton Bragg and Confederate Defeat, Vol. 1., Marvin R. Cain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .116
Darden Asbury Pyron, Southern Daughter: The Life of Margaret Mitchell, Marius M. Carriere, Jr. . . . . . . . .120
Frank N. Samponaro and Paul J. Vanderwood, War Scare on the Rio Grande : Robert Runyon's Photographs of the Border Conflict,
1913-1916, Manuel Urbina II . . . . . . .123
Mary Martha Thomas, The New Woman in Alabama : Social Reforms and Suffrage, 1890-1920, Marsha Wedell . . . . . .124
Melanie Wiggins, They Made Their Own Law: Stories of Bolivar Peninsula, Jo Ann Stiles . . . . . . . . . . . . .126
From the Archives:
Southern Labor Archives, Georgia State University, Robert C. Dinwiddie . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .129
Gulf Coast Historical Review
Vol. 10, No. 1, Fall 1994
The Gilded Age on the Gulf Coast
Keynote Address:
What's on the Black Worker's Mind? African-American Workers and the Union Tradition, Eric Arnesen. . . . . . . .5
Railroads, Tourists & Entrepreneurs: Florida and the Gilded Age: Florida : Jewel of the Gilded Age, Hampton Dunn . . . . . . . . 19
Florida 's Gilded Year, 1886, Gary R. Mormino . . . . . . . . . 29
Pigs Will Wallow in the Streets: The Rise and Demise of Cedar Key as Florida's Port City, 1890-1910, Lewis N. Wynne . . . . . . . . 45
Folkways & A Sense of Community: Three Examples: Cups That Cheer: Folkways of Caffeinated Beverages in the
Reconstruction South, James R. Comer . . . . . . . . . . . 61
Natural Disasters and Community Survival in Texas and Louisiana in the Gilded Age, Irene Ledesma. . . . . . . . 73
Railroad Bill, James Penick. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
The Timber Industry Along the Gulf Coast: The Transformation of Work in the North Florida Timber Industry, 1890-1910,
Jeffrey A. Drobney. . . . . . . . . . 93
The Gilded Pearl : From Settlers to Sawmill Hands, John Hawkins Napier III . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .111
Simpson & Company: Victorian Sawmill of the Gulf Coastal Plain, 1865-1882, Nathan Woolsey . . . . . . . . . . . . .122
Mobile in the Gilded Age: The Politics of Food: Mobile 's Public Markets in the Gilded Age, George Ewert . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .141
Rudolph Benz: Mobile 's Gilded Age Architect, John S. Sledge . . . . . . . . . .151
Commercial Photography in the Gilded Age in Mobile, Michael Thomason. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .163
Gulf Coast Ports & Pilots on the Lower Mississippi: The Bar Pilots Story: Organization of the Associated Branch Pilots on the
Lower Mississippi River, Roman J. Heleniak & Charles A. Dranguet, Jr . . . . . . . .177
The Port of New Orleans in the Gilded Age 1880-1896, Joy J. Jackson. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .189
Galveston Texas : An Immigrant Port on the Gulf Coast, Barbara J. Rozek. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .203