The Galveston Dispatches space opera Heroism gets a man killed

Heroism gets a man killed quickly

Dutchman's Creek flows out of the Ashokan Reservoir

and the objects they carry in their beaks from that cold

while wind gusts had upended steel girders and trestles

poetic soul

The Galveston Dispatches space opera Heroism gets a man killedIn 1855, Friedrich Gloor was just nineteen when he was sent from Basel, Switzerland, halfway around the world to teach at the First German Lutheran Church school in Galveston, Texas. He spent the next eleven years writing letters to his family about a place that was very different from his Swiss home. The climate was harsh, with stifling heat and bitter cold, droughts and floods. He provides a firsthand account of the treatment of slaves, frontier