| Summary: | Photograph shows view from steam driven launch, looking back towards string of rowboats. Town of Tarpon (later Port Aransas) in distance on left. Large building is Tarpon Inn. Copied from halftone photomechanical print (postcard)" On back:""J.E. Cotter, Publisher, Tarpon, Texas." See HURRICANE JUNCTION by Cyril Matthew Kuene, 1973:".In the early 1900's Ed Cotter had become a popular guide, taking his patrons out into the Gulf to catch tarpon. At the time he operated a one-cylinder steam powered launch and would tow a string of about fifteen rowboats, secured by anchor lines one in back of the other, to the tarpon grounds beyond the jetties. Once outside the jetties, the fishermen in rowboats would cast themselves loose from the power launch, man their oars, much after the manner of the Portuguese dorymen off the banks of Newfoundland.''
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