"Galveston - A City on Stilts" by Jodi Wright-Gidley and Jennifer Marines, 143 pages, published by Arcadia Publishing 2008, soft cover.  Over 150 black and white historical photographs.

Tells the story of how Galveston recovered from the famous hurricane of Sept. 1900.  Features rare 100-year old photos of the people, ships, buildings, seawall and causeway projects.  After the 1900 hurricane Galveston was bankrupt, but its leaders decided to risk everything and rebuild, and they succeeded without federal assistance.  Their efforts made Galveston great.

HELP REBUILD GALVESTON from the devastating hurricane "Ike" in September 2008, by purchasing this book.  All publisher profits from the sale of this book will be donated to the Galveston Historical Foundation.