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17 produkter
Texas Trails and Glass Pyramids
Creating the San Antonio Botanical Garden
Inbunden, 2026
347 kr
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For nearly a century, San Antonio dreamed of a botanical garden. Ideas surfaced, sites were debated, and plans repeatedly fell away. Texas Trails and Glass Pyramids tells the compelling and often surprising story of how that long-deferred vision finally took root, and how a neglected ridge shaped …
Spanish Missions of San Antonio
Häftad, 2010
191 kr
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This concise and lavishly illustrated account balances the significant history of the San Antonio’s missions’ founding and their original function with the stories of their subsequent decay and eventual restoration. New drawings depict all five mission compounds as they first appeared. Built in the …
Eyes Right!
A Vintage Postcard Profile of San Antonio's Military
Häftad, 2010
220 kr
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As the nation undertook the business of winning two world wars, tens of thousands of soldiers and airmen went through San Antonio bases. The picture postcards that they sent home uniquely document military life in these memorable years. One chapter of images eals with the Pershing Expedition's …
Saving San Antonio
The Preservation of a Heritage
E-bok, 2016
287 kr
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Few American cities enjoy the likes of San Antonio's visual links with its dramatic past. The Alamo and four other Spanish missions, recently marked as a UNESCO World Heritage site, are the most obvious but there are a host of landmarks and folkways that have survived over the course of nearly …
Maverick
The American Name That Became a Legend
E-bok, 2017
253 kr
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By definition, a maverick is a “lone dissenter” who “takes an independent stand apart from his or her associates” or “a person pursuing rebellious, even potentially disruptive policies or ideas.” The word maverick has evolved in the English language from being the term for an unbranded stray calf …
Brackenridge
San Antonio’s Acclaimed Urban Park
Inbunden, 2022
451 kr
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Brackenridge Park began its life as a heavily wooded, bucolic driving park at the turn of the twentieth century. Over the next 120 years it evolved into the sprawling, multifaceted jewel San Antonians enjoy today, home to the San Antonio Zoo, the state’s first public golf course, the Japanese Tea …
Brackenridge
San Antonio’s Acclaimed Urban Park
E-bok, 2022
407 kr
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Brackenridge Park began its life as a heavily wooded, bucolic driving park at the turn of the twentieth century. Over the next 120 years it evolved into the sprawling, multifaceted jewel San Antonians enjoy today, home to the San Antonio Zoo, the state’s first public golf course, the Japanese Tea …
American Venice
The Epic Story of San Antonio's River
Inbunden, 2015
362 kr
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In American Venice: The Epic Story of San Antonio's River, Lewis F. Fisher uncovers the evolution of San Antonio's beloved River Walk. He shares how San Antonians refused to give up on the vital water source that provided for them from before the city's beginnings. In 1941 neglect, civic uprisings, …
Chili Queens, Hay Wagons and Fandangos
The Spanish Plazas in Frontier San Antonio
Häftad, 2010
241 kr
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This coffee table book displays more than 100 rarely seen images to bring to life the frontier era of one of America’s most unusual cities, seen through its Spanish plazas. Colorful iconic paintings and drawings mix with 19th century photographic stereoviews and cabinet cards, cropped for impact …
No Cause of Offence
A Virginia Family of Union Loyalists Confronts the Civil War
Inbunden, 2010
218 kr
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Despite the image of a "Solid South," many southerners stayed loyal to the Union during the Civil War and coexisted uneasily with their Confederate neighbors. In Virginia's Shenandoah Valley, the Lewises gave "no cause of offense" but did not hide their beliefs, made clear to Stonewall Jackson as …
San Antonio's Historic Plazas, Parks and River Walk
in Vintage Postcard Images
Häftad, 2010
165 kr
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From plazas of Spanish times to the River Walk, San Antonio enjoys a broad variety of historic public spaces, recalling the open landscapes Spanish planners had in mind when they designed the city. Later expanded, they still lend San Antonio a distinctive charm. Here they are uniquely portrayed in …
San Antonio's Spanish Missions
A Portrait
Häftad, 2010
257 kr
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This elegant coffee-table volume displays more than 100 color photographs by architectural photographer Mike Osborne, providing a distinctive contemporary portrait of the five mission complexes, now partly restored, partly still in ruins. One, better known as the Alamo, is a memorial to its …
Alamo to Espada
A Vintage Postcard Profile of San Antonio's Spanish Missions
Häftad, 2010
131 kr
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San Antonio's five Spanish missions were being pulled from the brink of destruction a century ago just as picture postcards came into vogue. Alamo to Espada features more than 150 such vintage postcards to document the progress of the dramatic transformation, as well as the far-reaching impact of …
San Antonio's Spanish Missions
A Portrait
Inbunden, 2010
339 kr
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This elegant coffee-table volume displays more than 100 color photographs by architectural photographer Mike Osborne, providing a distinctive contemporary portrait of the five mission complexes, now partly restored, partly still in ruins. One, better known as the Alamo, is a memorial to its …
Saving San Antonio
The Preservation of a Heritage
Häftad, 2016
239 kr
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Few American cities enjoy the likes of San Antonio's visual links with its dramatic past. The Alamo and four other Spanish missions, recently marked as a UNESCO World Heritage site, are the most obvious but there are a host of landmarks and folkways that have survived over the course of nearly …
Maverick
The American Name That Became a Legend
Häftad, 2017
173 kr
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By definition, a maverick is a “lone dissenter” who “takes an independent stand apart from his or her associates” or “a person pursuing rebellious, even potentially disruptive policies or ideas.” The word maverick has evolved in the English language from being the term for an unbranded stray calf …
Greetings from San Antonio
Historic Postcards of the Alamo City
Inbunden, 2020
269 kr
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At the dawn of the twentieth century, just as color postcards were becoming a worldwide sensation, San Antonio bypassed Dallas as the largest city in Texas. Idyllic postcard images of San Antonio began landing in mailboxes across the country, displaying recently gained wealth and prosperity. …
