300 Years Of San Antonio And Bexar County
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Author | : Claudia R. Guerra |
Publisher | : Trinity University Press |
Total Pages | : 834 |
Release | : 2018-06-21 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1595348506 |
300 Years of San Antonio & Bexar County captures the iconic stories, moments, people, and places that define one of the oldest communities in the United States. A collection of diverse authors joined forces to produce this richly illustrated and complexly woven thematic telling of the city’s history. From its earliest legacy as home to many indigenous peoples to its municipal founding by the Canary Islanders, a convergence of people from across the globe have settled, sacrificed, and successfully shaped the culture of San Antonio. The result is a 21st-century community that strives to balance diverse heritage with a vibrant economy thanks to stories from the past that provide lessons for the future.
Author | : Hector J. Cardenas |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 109 |
Release | : 2018 |
Genre | : San Antonio (Tex.) |
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Author | : William Corner |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 1890 |
Genre | : San Antonio (Tex.) |
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Author | : Char Miller |
Publisher | : Texas A&M University Press |
Total Pages | : 258 |
Release | : 2018-10-04 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1625110510 |
This is the first general history of San Antonio, Texas, the seventh largest city in the nation. Its past is complex and ranges across 300 years, from the community’s origins as a tiny Spanish frontier town to its contemporary status as a vital American mega-city. Site of some of the most violent struggles between warring empires and people—historians believe San Antonio may be the most fought-over city in U.S. history—it is perhaps most celebrated for the iconic 1836 Battle of the Alamo. The city is also home to four beautifully restored Spanish missions, which in 2015 UNESCO designated a World Heritage Site and have become integral to San Antonio’s robust tourist economy along with the fabled River Walk. This study weaves together a series of environmental, social, political, and cultural pressures that have shaped life in the Alamo City over the last three centuries. Residents have long fought to protect and utilize water and other resources even as they have struggled to achieve equal rights and build a more open and democratic society. Activists from all sectors of this multicultural city have believed deeply in its promise even though they have had to push hard to secure and expand its potential. Their efforts were every bit as intense in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries as they have been in the twenty-first. Written for a general audience, but with a scholarly attention to detail and nuance, San Antonio: A Tricentennial History immerses readers in the city’s fascinating and fraught past.
Author | : Thomas A. Wilson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 20 |
Release | : 1972 |
Genre | : Heraldry |
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Author | : Frederick Charles Chabot |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 490 |
Release | : 1937 |
Genre | : British Americans |
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"A collection of carefully selected genealogies and biographies of families and persons where were closely related with early Texas history."--From the preface
Author | : Char Miller |
Publisher | : University of Pittsburgh Pre |
Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 2001-11-29 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780822970606 |
This award winning book is an environmental history of the role of water and water management in the region surrounding San Antonio and and the San Antonio River Valley.
Author | : Pat Ireland Nixon |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 482 |
Release | : 2013-10 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781494113230 |
This is a new release of the original 1936 edition.
Author | : Art Martinez de vara |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 392 |
Release | : 2020-06 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780999212820 |
THE TOWN OF BEXAR (near present-day Somerset, Texas), developed on the Kinney Ranch in South Bexar County beginning in the 1860s. The town was called "La Colorada" by its many Mexican miners who settled there.St. Patrick's Church was established on the ranch and served as the Catholic mission to Atascosa and Frio Counties. With the arrival of the Artesian Belt Railroad, the town of Bexar declined as its population moved two miles east to Somerset. Many of the early families of Atascosa and South Bexar Counties are contained among this book's nearly 10,000 entries, including the Ruiz, Herrera, Navarro, Cotulla, Lytle, Casias, Kinney, Hayden, Barker and Vara. This volume contains the complete records of St. Patrick's Church, plus a modern cemetery survey of its cemetery, an 1876 mission census of Atascosa County and a detailed history of the community.
Author | : San Antonio (Tex.). Planning and Community Development Department. Comprehensive Planning Division |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 72 |
Release | : 1973 |
Genre | : Bexar County (Tex.) |
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