Our San Antonio

Author : San Antonio Express-News
Publisher : Trinity University Press
ISBN 13 : 1595347569
Total Pages : 1620 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book San Antonio written by San Antonio Express-News and published by Trinity University Press. This book was released on 2015-10-19 with total page 1620 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On Sept. 27, 1865, the San Antonio Express-News made its debut. And from the beginning, there was plenty to write about. The Civil War had just concluded, and it was only twenty-nine years after the fall of the Alamo. The Chisholm Trail, the high road of the Cattle Kingdom, began in San Antonio, which was the largest and among the most diverse cities in Texas. Spanish, German, and English were commonly spoken. The politics were lively and sometimes divisive, as the city was full of Unionist sympathizers in a state that was an anchor of the Confederacy. Today, 150 years later, San Antonio is America’s fastest-growing big city and still making history. San Antonio is a richly illustrated compilation of more than 150 years of coverage on the history and culture of the city, as told in the pages of the San Antonio Express-News. From local politics to news stories on the military, energy, water use, the border and immigration that reverberate nationally and internationally, to the recent naming of San Antonio’s five Spanish missions as a World Heritage site, the city has always been a place where the American identity is forged. This book tracks the city's past from 1865 until 2015 and is full of evocative pictures and compelling accounts culled from the Express-News archives. The collection celebrates companies that shaped the city, such as Frost Bank, which began extending credit in 1867; the Sisters of Charity of the Incarnate Word, founders in 1869 of what is now the Christus Santa Rosa Health System and subsequently their namesake university; and H-E-B grocery. This is not a standard civic history or a straightforward march through the decades. Loosely organized by theme, the stories in the collection are often quite often surprising, just like San Antonio itself. As anyone who has spent time in the city knows, this is a place with a soul.

Author : Susanna Nawrocki, Mark Langford, Gerald Lair, Claude Stanush
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781610604802
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Our San Antonio written by Susanna Nawrocki, Mark Langford, Gerald Lair, Claude Stanush and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Claudia R. Guerra
Publisher : Maverick Books
ISBN 13 : 9781595348937
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.3X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book 300 Years of San Antonio and Bexar County written by Claudia R. Guerra and published by Maverick Books. This book was released on 2019-07-30 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The iconic stories, moments, people, and places that define one of the oldest communities in the United States

Author : San Antonio (Tex.). Housing and Inspections, Dept. of
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 54 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Our Slum and Blighted Areas written by San Antonio (Tex.). Housing and Inspections, Dept. of and published by . This book was released on 1957 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Adam Gamble
Publisher : Good Night Books
ISBN 13 : 1602193479
Total Pages : 20 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Good Night San Antonio written by Adam Gamble and published by Good Night Books. This book was released on 2015-04-23 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Howdy, partner! This colorful board book features some of San Antonio’s most cherished places, including the San Antonio River Walk, the Alamo, San Antonio Zoo and Aquarium, Schlitterbahn Waterpark, Brackenridge Park, Natural Bridge Wild Ranch, caverns, Tex-Mex, Mariachi bands, and the San Antonio Spurs.

Author : Patricia Hart McMillan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780764360930
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sí, San Antonio written by Patricia Hart McMillan and published by . This book was released on 2020-08-28 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nothing sparkles like downtown San Antonio at Christmastime. Dazzling color photographs take readers on a magic carpet ride to this multicultural city's most-visited events and attractions, extravagantly and romantically decorated for the winter holidays. See popular destinations such as Six Flags Texas Fiesta--a vast amusement park--Spanish Colonial Missions, fine restaurants, historic hotels, house museums on King William Street, and the San Antonio Zoo, which becomes a fairyland at night. Photos are accompanied by brief histories of the sites. An insider's take on the town's merry-making, the book will be a treasured take-home souvenir for tourists and a striking coffee table book for locals.

Author : David R. Johnson
Publisher : Trinity University Press
ISBN 13 : 1595349235
Total Pages : 409 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book In the Loop written by David R. Johnson and published by Trinity University Press. This book was released on 2020-10-06 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the Loop: A Political and Economic History of San Antonio, is the culmination of urban historian David Johnson’s extensive research into the development of Texas’s oldest city. Beginning with San Antonio’s formation more than three hundred years ago, Johnson lays out the factors that drove the largely uneven and unplanned distribution of resources and amenities and analyzes the demographics that transformed the city from a frontier settlement into a diverse and complex modern metropolis. Following the shift from military interests to more diverse industries and punctuated by evocative descriptions and historical quotations, this urban biography reveals how city mayors balanced constituents’ push for amenities with the pull of business interests such as tourism and the military. Deep dives into city archives fuel the story and round out portraits of Sam Maverick, Henry B. Gonzales, Lila Cockrell, and other political figures. Johnson reveals the interplay of business interests, economic attractiveness, and political goals that spurred San Antonio’s historic tenacity and continuing growth and highlights individual agendas that influenced its development. He focuses on the crucial link between urban development and booster coalitions, outlining how politicians and business owners everywhere work side by side, although not necessarily together, to shape the future of any metropolitan area, including geographical disparities. Three photo galleries illustrate boosterism’s impact on San Antonio’s public and private space and highlight its tangible results. In the Loop recounts each stage of San Antonio’s economic development with logic and care, building a rich story to contextualize our understanding of the current state of the city and our notions of how an American city can form.

Author : Susanna Nawrocki
Publisher : Voyageur Press
ISBN 13 : 9780760329733
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Our San Antonio written by Susanna Nawrocki and published by Voyageur Press. This book was released on 2008-02-15 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Quintessentially historic Texas, San Antonio is the place where Old Mexico and the deep South, the Wild West and Native American culture meet and mingle. A stunning photographic portrait of the city, this book conducts visitors and natives alike to San Antonio's best known and most beloved landmarks as well as her lesser-known but no less fascinating historic sites, natural splendors, and cultural marvels. First stop, of course, is the Alamo, where more than 180 Americans and Texans, including Davy Crockett, lost their lives in a fierce thirteen-day battle with the Mexican army in 1936. A tour of historic San Antonio also includes La Villita, one of the original settlements housing Spanish soldiers; the Spanish Governors Palace; Fort Sam Houston; San Fernando Cathedral; and four mission churches. San Antonio is also home to the famous Paseo del Rio, or River Walk. The authors, longtime residents, take us along this thoroughfare through the heart of the city, along the San Antonio River's banks, past the teeming shops and restaurants, clubs, theaters, and posh hotels. They direct us then to the city's other highlights, such as the Tower of the Americas, Brackenridge Park and the San Antonio Zoo, the Marion Koogler McNay Museum and the San Antonio Museum of Art as well as five major military installations.

Author : Higher Publicity League of Texas
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Greater San Antonio, the City of Destiny and of Your Destination written by Higher Publicity League of Texas and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Liza Long
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0147516404
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Price of Silence written by Liza Long and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2015-08-04 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Liza Long, the author of “I Am Adam Lanza’s Mother"—as seen in the documentaries American Tragedy and HBO®'s A Dangerous Son—speaks out about mental illness. Like most of the nation, Liza Long spent December 14, 2012, mourning the victims of the Newtown shooting. As the mother of a child with a mental illness, however, she also wondered: “What if my son does that someday?” The emotional response she posted on her blog went viral, putting Long at the center of a passionate controversy. Now, she takes the next step. Powerful and shocking, The Price of Silence looks at how society stigmatizes mental illness—including in children—and the devastating societal cost. In the wake of repeated acts of mass violence, Long points the way forward.