Narrated by The StorytellerFocus: Storms & Swindlers82 km · about 58 min · 12 stories
Down the bayou through storms and swindlers: the 1900 Galveston hurricane — still America's deadliest disaster — the oil boom that followed, the Free State of Galveston's open casinos, and the Texas City explosion. Hurricane Ike gets the closing word.
The stories
In order along the route. Tap a dot on the map, or play them here.
Infinite Road draws from a library of primary sources — public-domain county histories, the WPA American Guide Series, National Register of Historic Places records, local records, and encyclopedic sources — then writes and narrates each story in its own words.