Such Agreeable Savages: An Englishwoman's Excursions to the Gulf of Mexico & Republic of Texas, 1842-1846

by Matilda Charlotte Houstoun

In the winter of 1842, a strange ship appeared off Galveston and soon had Texan tongues wagging. That ship was the Dolphin, a British schooner-of-war, fitted out as an armed luxury yacht by Captain William Houstoun, a British cavalry officer.

Captain Houstoun had come to hunt and fish. His wife, Matilda Charlotte Jesse Fraser Houstoun (1815-1892), had come to observe...and record what she saw and heard for the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1941324460
• ISBN13: 9781941324462
• Release Date: February 2020
• Publisher: Copano Bay Press
• Length: 318 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"