The Galveston EraThe "Queen City" of Texas they called heror the "Octopus of the Gulf." Galveston from 1845 to 1860 was the center of culture in Texasor 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, avid