The Story of Beaumont

• Home (Front Cover)
• Foreword
• The Covered Wagon
• Beginnings of Beaumont
• The First Wedding
• A Love Story
• La Salle's Grave
• Early River Trading
• Naming the Town
• How Beaumont Streets Got Their Names
• Homes of Early Days
• The First Cotton in Texas
• The Acadians
• The Black Bean
• Boy Feud
• The Alligator Circuit
• The Late Train
• Beaumont in the Wars
• The Newspaper Comes
• Spindletop, The Wonder Oil Field
• Boom Days
• Industries That Built the City
• Lumber, The City's First Stepping Stone
• Providence Rice
• "Thirty Feet to the Gulf"
• Its Government
• Gifts to the City
• Where Beaumont Plays
• A Living Landmark
• Gleanings from Beaumont's Book of Life
• Beaumont's Yard Stick
• Index

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• About the Author
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This autograph on a cover page of one book

"To Erin O'Brien whose forebears helped to rock the cradle of Beaumont in its infancy; Florence Stratton; November 1929"

This note is on a cover page of another copy of the book

Mrs. ?Jean/John/Flow? Pipkin -- 1927

  . . . (the words in blue are only guesses)

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