In 1898, the Tarpon Club of Texas was the most expensive, and exclusive club the world had ever seen. E.H.R. Green located the club on St. Joseph Island adjacent to Aransas Pass. Its membership was dubbed the "First Four Hundred Sportsmen of America," a privileged group with "more politicians and businessmen that in any other similar organization in the United States" and whose "wealth combined reaches into the hundred-millions." Tarpon Club members...