The Galveston Era Charles Portis Red Clay chronicles the interwoven

Red Clay chronicles the interwoven lives of an enslaved Black family and their white owners as the Civil War ends and Reconstruction begins

Rubble thinks he's seen a ghost

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nestled along the shores of Cape Cod

they all look the same

The Galveston Era Charles Portis Red Clay chronicles the interwovenThe "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,