The Galveston Era Charles Portis The smell of clay

The smell of clay

And every day

Rubble thinks he's seen a ghost

nestled along the shores of Cape Cod

they all look the same

The Galveston Era Charles Portis The smell of clayThe "Queen City" of Texas they called her or the "Octopus of the Gulf." Galveston from 1845 to 1860 was the center of culture in Texas or the monster with an economic strangle hold on all Texas trade. It was a gracious city with wide paved streets, impressive buildings, and neat gardens; yet it was also a pestilence ridden place where no sanitary code was ever enforced and where one in every two children died before reaching maturity. Its citizens,