Barrier to the Bays: The Islands of the Coastal Bend and Their Pass Volume 35 by O'Rear, Mary Jo

Barrier to the Bays: The Islands of the Coastal Bend and Their Pass Volume 35

Mary Jo O'Rear rounds out her coastal bend trilogy with a deep and engaging look at the...
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Author: Mary Jo O'Rear
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Language: English
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Barrier to the Bays: The Islands of the Coastal Bend and Their Pass Volume 35 by O'Rear, Mary Jo

Barrier to the Bays: The Islands of the Coastal Bend and Their Pass Volume 35

€53,64

Barrier to the Bays: The Islands of the Coastal Bend and Their Pass Volume 35

€53,64
Author: Mary Jo O'Rear
Format: Hardcover
Language: English

Mary Jo O'Rear rounds out her coastal bend trilogy with a deep and engaging look at the prehistory and history of the Texas barrier islands. In Barrier to the Bays, O'Rear captures the deep time of the islands (Mustang, Padre, and San José), the bays (Aransas, Corpus Christi, Copano, Redfish, and Nueces), and Aransas Pass. From the earliest human settlements to the twentieth century, O'Rear explores the complex interplay between people and economies struggling to survive in a region dominated by indifferent forces of nature.

Barrier to the Bays opens with the natural formation and development of the barrier isles and the arrival of Native Americans, Spanish castaways, French explorers, and Catholic missionaries. European settlements on the mainland eventually led to rich commercial development of the area and its bounty as ranching, fishing, and transportation took hold. By the early twentieth century, the people of the Coastal Bend began wrestling with a new drive to create deep-water harbors along the coastline in the face of the ever-present hurricane threat. O'Rear shows that by World War II the region had settled into a kind of "practicality" as tourists and traders took their place among the denizens of the islands and bays.

In addition to the stories of familiar historical figures, Barrier to the Bays stresses the importance of technology in the settlement and development of the region. "Nothing could have been achieved among the barriers and bays of the Coastal Bend without the right tools." O'Rear underscores the importance of properly designed sailing vessels and the centrality of navigation technology as an integral part of the barrier isle story.



Author: Mary Jo O'Rear
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
Published: 05/05/2022
Pages: 280
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.30lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.00w x 1.00d
ISBN: 9781623499402

About the Author

MARY JO O'REAR is the author of Bulwark against the Bay: The People of Corpus Christi and Their Seawall and Storm over the Bay: The People of Corpus Christi and Their Port, a finalist for the 2010 Most Significant Scholarly Book Award, presented by the Texas Institute of Letters.


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