Old Red, University of Texas Medical School Galveston
Writing
Nowhere was the rising affluence of Texas in the late nineteenth century more evident than in Galveston, dubbed at the time "Queen City of the Gulf." All of the promise and prosperity of blossoming American capitalism were here, fed by a booming port that had become the gateway to the New West. Heady Galveston was ready to tear down its modest frame structures and rebuild in brick and stone to…