{"product_id":"lighthouses-of-texas-9780890964811","title":"Lighthouses of Texas","description":"\u003cp\u003eSending their beams over the coastal waters to guidemariners into harbor  lighthouses form part of the romanceof Americas past. Here  available again  is thecomprehensive story of the lighthouses and lightships ofTexas  first told in 1991 by historian T. Lindsay Baker andillustrated with watercolors by noted artist Harold Phenix.After introducing readers to lighthouses and their keepersin his first chapter  Baker provides ten more chapters  eachone detailing a surviving Texas lighthouse and itsconstruction  navigational service  and historical role.These include lights at Brazos Santiago  Point Isabel  AransasPass  Matagorda  Halfmoon Reef  Brazos River  Galveston Jetty Galveston  Bolivar Point  Heald Bank  Sabine Pass  and SabineBank.The story of the lighthouses is one with a human face.Readers will meet the engineers who built the lights and theinspectors who ensured their efficacy. Men and occasionallywomenusually alone  sometimes accompanied by family or acrewserved as lighthouse keepers on the remote Texasbeaches.In a concluding chapter  Baker chronicles the fate of thelights in the mid-twentieth century. A new preface updatesthe condition of the various lighthouses at the dawn of thetwenty-first century.About theT. Lindsay Baker award-winning author of many books  isdirector of the Texas Heritage Museum at Hill Country Collegein Hillsboro  Texas. Harold Phenix makes his home in Hunt  Texas  and continuesto paint.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45648050683957,"sku":"ByrdShop_0890964815","price":169.42,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780890964811.jpg?v=1781707928","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/lighthouses-of-texas-9780890964811","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}