Download or read book Texas Almanac 2000 2001 Millennium Edition written by and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Alamo Story written by Dean Kirkpatrick and published by The Alamo Story and Tour. This book was released on 2011-10-10 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are you going to the Alamo? Read this book first, then take it with you to see and remember it all. Most visitors just see the Alamo compound, where it ended, but the 1836 siege and battle took place all over the city. The Alamo Story and Battleground Tour is the first Alamo history book that tells the story at the places throughout San Antonio where Alamo events actually happened. This book combines an Alamo history from 1685 to 1836 with a self-guided tour. The places on the tour may be experienced through the pictures in the book or by following the maps and directions the book provides and actually walking the ground where the Alamo heroes walked. Covering a distance of about two miles, much of it along the San Antonio River Walk, the written history and self-guided tour take you to the locations of: Davy Crockett's ashes, Jim Bowie's river palace, General Santa Anna's death flag, the Cos surrender house, La Villita, the forbidden footbridge, the Old Mill Ford, Jim Bowie's wedding in 1831, and many others. "It was a really interesting concept on that book and I enjoyed reading it. He did a good job on that one." − Daughter of the Republic of Texas, Alamo Committee Member (Designated Reviewer) "We can see that this book was a true labor of love....." − Ann Serrano, Librarian, The Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, University of Texas "To see the Alamo in a new way, you need to get this book." - Texas Country Reporter "Your research and knowledge and gift for the telling of this story is truly a tribute to those brave men who perished at that place and time in history." − Reader

Download or read book The Battle of the Alamo written by Ben H. Procter and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2013-03-15 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The dramatic story of one of the most famous events in Texas history is told by Ben H. Procter. Procter describes in colorful detail the background, character, and motives of the prominent figures at the Alamo—Bowie, Travis, and Crockett—and the course and outcome of the battle itself. This concise and engaging account of a turning point in Texas history will appeal to students, teachers, historians, and general readers alike.

Download or read book Los Adaes the First Capital of Spanish Texas written by Francis Galan and published by . This book was released on 2020-06 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1721, Spain established a fort and mission on the Texas-Louisiana border, or frontera, to stem the tide of people and goods flowing back and forth between northern New Spain and French Louisiana. Named in part after the indigenous Adai people, the complex of the presidio (Nuestra Señora del Pilar de los Adaes) and the mission (San Miguel de Cuellar de los Adaes) became collectively known as Los Adaes. It was the capital of Tejas for New Spain. In the first book devoted to Los Adaes, historian Francis X. Galan traces the roots of the current US-Mexico border to the colonial history of this all but forgotten Spanish fort and mission. He demonstrates that, despite efforts to the contrary, Spain could neither fully block the penetration of smuggled goods and settlers into Texas from Louisiana nor could it successfully convert the Native Americans to Christianity and the Spanish economic system. In the aftermath of the transfer of Louisiana from France to Spain in 1762, Spain chose to shutter the fort and mission. The settlers, or Adaeseños, were forced to march to San Antonio in 1773. Some returned to East Texas soon after to establish Nacogdoches. Others remained in San Antonio, the new capital of Spanish Texas, and settled on lands distributed from the secularized Mission San Antonio de Valero, a mission now widely known as the Alamo. Los Adaes, the First Capital of Spanish Texas makes a major contribution to Texas history by providing a richer perspective on the shifting borders of colonial powers.

Download or read book San Antonio Marriages 1703 1846 written by Art Martinez de Vara and published by . This book was released on 2020-11-25 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: San Antonio Marriages, 1703 - 1846: Matrimony in Colonial, Mexican and Republican Texas contains 1751 marriage records from present-day San Antonio. Included in the book are San Fernando Church Marriages; San Fernando Marriage Petitions; San Antonio Marriage Investigations; Mission San Antonio De Valero Marriages; Mission San Jose Marriages; Mission Concepcion Marriages; Republic Of Texas Marriage Licenses; Marriages Of Bexar Exiles In Natchitoches; Mission San Francisco Solano Marriages; 1772 Married Couples Of Mission San Antonio De Valero. Also included in an extensive introduction covering marriage law and custom of the period, including cannon law, reforms, marriage by bond, indigenous marriage practices and the collision of Anglo-American and Spanish-Mexican customs in the Republic of Texas period. Also included is a new English translation of Marriage Manual Of The San Antonio Missionswhich was written specifically for the Coahuiltecan Indians entering the missions. An index of over 15,000 names and 1,200 terms gives researchers unprecedented access to the material. Among these are mission Indians, presidio soldiers, settlers, government officials, witnesses, priests, ministers, slaves and freedmen. In these records are hopeful beginnings, tragic ends, objecting parents, cheaters, converts, recalcitrants, Indians, Europeans, Africans and a mix of everything in between. This is the intimate story of early San Antonio, told one couple at a time.

Download or read book Forget the Alamo written by Bryan Burrough and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2022-06-07 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Times bestseller! “Lively and absorbing. . ." — The New York Times Book Review "Engrossing." —Wall Street Journal “Entertaining and well-researched . . . ” —Houston Chronicle Three noted Texan writers combine forces to tell the real story of the Alamo, dispelling the myths, exploring why they had their day for so long, and explaining why the ugly fight about its meaning is now coming to a head. Every nation needs its creation myth, and since Texas was a nation before it was a state, it's no surprise that its myths bite deep. There's no piece of history more important to Texans than the Battle of the Alamo, when Davy Crockett and a band of rebels went down in a blaze of glory fighting for independence from Mexico, losing the battle but setting Texas up to win the war. However, that version of events, as Forget the Alamo definitively shows, owes more to fantasy than reality. Just as the site of the Alamo was left in ruins for decades, its story was forgotten and twisted over time, with the contributions of Tejanos--Texans of Mexican origin, who fought alongside the Anglo rebels--scrubbed from the record, and the origin of the conflict over Mexico's push to abolish slavery papered over. Forget the Alamo provocatively explains the true story of the battle against the backdrop of Texas's struggle for independence, then shows how the sausage of myth got made in the Jim Crow South of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. As uncomfortable as it may be to hear for some, celebrating the Alamo has long had an echo of celebrating whiteness. In the past forty-some years, waves of revisionists have come at this topic, and at times have made real progress toward a more nuanced and inclusive story that doesn't alienate anyone. But we are not living in one of those times; the fight over the Alamo's meaning has become more pitched than ever in the past few years, even violent, as Texas's future begins to look more and more different from its past. It's the perfect time for a wise and generous-spirited book that shines the bright light of the truth into a place that's gotten awfully dark.

Download or read book The Art and Architecture of the Texas Missions written by Jacinto Quirarte and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2010-07-22 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner, Presidio La Bahia Award, Sons of the Republic of Texas Built to bring Christianity and European civilization to the northern frontier of New Spain in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries...secularized and left to decay in the nineteenth century...and restored in the twentieth century, the Spanish missions still standing in Texas are really only shadows of their original selves. The mission churches, once beautifully adorned with carvings and sculptures on their façades and furnished inside with elaborate altarpieces and paintings, today only hint at their colonial-era glory through the vestiges of art and architectural decoration that remain. To paint a more complete portrait of the missions as they once were, Jacinto Quirarte here draws on decades of on-site and archival research to offer the most comprehensive reconstruction and description of the original art and architecture of the six remaining Texas missions—San Antonio de Valero (the Alamo), San José y San Miguel de Aguayo, Nuestra Señora de la Purísima Concepción, San Juan Capistrano, and San Francisco de la Espada in San Antonio and Nuestra Señora del Espíritu Santo in Goliad. Using church records and other historical accounts, as well as old photographs, drawings, and paintings, Quirarte describes the mission churches and related buildings, their decorated surfaces, and the (now missing) altarpieces, whose iconography he extensively analyzes. He sets his material within the context of the mission era in Texas and the Southwest, so that the book also serves as a general introduction to the Spanish missionary program and to Indian life in Texas.

Download or read book Alamo Images written by Susan Prendergast Schoelwer and published by Southern Methodist University Press. This book was released on 1985 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exhibition at the DeGolyer Library, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas, November 16, 1985-March 14, 1986.

Download or read book Boys Book of Border Battles written by Edwin L. Sabin and published by Skyhorse Publishing Inc.. This book was released on 2013-02-08 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A classic of historical war literature, Boys' book of border battles puts you at the scene of some of the most important and storied battles in the history of North America. From George Washington's charges against the French in the mid-1700s to the lengthy and drawn-out wars in the western territories between the ever-advancing white frontier settlers and Native American tribes, Sabin's book is an important record of American history. This Skyhorse reprint of the 1920 text faithfully reproduces Boys' book of border battles in its original state, complete with high-quality replicas of the illustration plates that accompany the book.

Download or read book The Other Side of the Alamo Art Against the Myth written by Ruben C. Cordova and published by . This book was released on 2018-12-05 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exhibition catalogue of San Antonio-based Chicano art, from 1971 to 2018. With a comprehensive historiography of Anglo colonization and slavery in Texas, the Alamo and San Jacinto battles, the Mexican-American War, Manifest Destiny, and the legacy of these historical events, particularly for people of color. "The catalogue is a fascinating and invaluable historical review of the Battle of the Alamo and the making of the Texas Republic." -David Montejano, Turner prize-winning author of "Anglos and Mexicans in the Making of Texas, 1836-1986.""Cordova not only pulled together an important group of artists to challenge the Anglo-centric myths of the Alamo, he wrote a critical essay systematically destroying those lies with historical facts. ... [It] introduced me to a new world of contemporary art, it educated this fifth-generation Texan and served as a key research tool." -Chris Tomlinson, co-author of "Forget the Alamo" and author of the New York Times Bestseller "Tomlinson Hill." "One of the most revelatory exhibitions mounted for the city's tricentennial." -Josh Feola, Artsy."A vital and timely exhibition." -Stephen Oleszec, Hyperallergic."The show is done really beautifully.... this is a really big and important project." -Brandon Zech, Glasstire Top Five video."A deeply researched, historically compelling exhibition." -Nicholas Frank, San Antonio Report."Much like Southerners who developed a 'lost cause' mythology to compensate for their defeat, white Texans developed an Alamo mythology that portrayed the fighters at the Alamo (Travis, Crockett and Bowie) not as defenders of slavery but defenders of 'Texas liberty.' The Other Side of the Alamo offers an alternative to the triumphalist tales surrounding the 18th-century Spanish mission." -Marco Aquino, San Antonio Current."Together, they paint the full picture of what the Alamo myth has done to the perception of Mexican Americans. -Morgan O. Hanlon, Texas Observer.

Download or read book History of the Alamo and of the Local Franciscan Missions written by Henry Ryder Taylor and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2022-10-27 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Download or read book San Juan Bautista written by Robert S. Weddle and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2010-07-22 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner, Presidio La Bahia Award, Sons of the Republic of Texas, 1978 In their efforts to assert dominion over vast reaches of the (now U.S.) Southwest in the seventeenth century, the Spanish built a series of far-flung missions and presidios at strategic locations. One of the most important of these was San Juan Bautista del Río Grande, located at the present-day site of Guerrero in Coahuila, Mexico. Despite its significance as the main entry point into Spanish Texas during the colonial period, San Juan Bautista was generally forgotten until the first publication of this book in 1968. Weddle's narrative is a fascinating chronicle of the many religious, military, colonial, and commerical expeditions that passed through San Juan and a valuable addition to knowledge of the Spanish borderlands. It won the Texas Institute of Letters Amon G. Carter Award for Best Southwest History in 1969.

Download or read book Arredondo written by Bradley Folsom and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2017-03-10 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this biography of Joaquín de Arredondo, historian Bradley Folsom brings to life one of the most influential and ruthless leaders in North American history. Arredondo (1776–1837), a Bourbon loyalist who governed Texas and the other interior provinces of northeastern New Spain during the Mexican War of Independence, contended with attacks by revolutionaries, U.S. citizens, generals who had served in Napoleon’s army, pirates, and various American Indian groups, all attempting to wrest control of the region. Often resorting to violence to deal with the provinces’ problems, Arredondo was for ten years the most powerful official in northeastern New Spain. Folsom’s lively account shows the challenges of governing a vast and inhospitable region and provides insight into nineteenth-century military tactics and Spanish viceregal realpolitik. When Arredondo and his army—which included Arredondo’s protégé, future president of Mexico Antonio López de Santa Anna—arrived in Nuevo Santander in 1811, they quickly suppressed a revolutionary upheaval. Arredondo went on to expel an army of revolutionaries and invaders from the United States who had taken over Texas and declared it an independent republic. In the Battle of Medina, the bloodiest battle ever fought in Texas, he crushed the insurgents and followed his victory with a purge that reduced Texas’s population by half. Over the following eight years, Arredondo faced fresh challenges to Spanish sovereignty ranging from Comanche and Apache raids to continued American incursion. In response, Arredondo ignored his superiors and ordered his soldiers to terrorize those who disagreed with him. Arredondo’s actions had dramatic repercussions in Texas, Mexico, and the United States. His decision to allow Moses Austin to colonize Texas with Americans would culminate in the defeat of Santa Anna in 1836, but not before Santa Anna had made good use of the lessons in brutality he had learned so well from his mentor.

Download or read book The Mystery of the Alamo Ghost written by Carole Marsh and published by Gallopade International. This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One ghostly figure, four kids in jail, seven miles of snaky river, too many clues and time is running out! Four real kids visit the Alamo and become ensnarled in a mystery where clues take them along the River Walk and through old San Antonio on a mission to save the Alamo... and they learn a little history all along the way! LOOK what's in this mystery - people, places, history, and more! The Alamo Story and History Š History of Texas General Santa Anna Š San Jacinto River Battle, TX Š Davy Crockett, history of his life and his role at the Alamo Š General Sam Houston, Š Remember The Alamo Š Sarah Seely DeWitt, Š Come and Take It Š William Barret Travis, Commander of the Alamo in 1836, "A line in the sand"Š The Alamo (San Antonio de Valero) - The Alamo Shrine - The Alamo Hospital - The Alamo Soldier's Barracks - The Cenotaph Memorial Š The River Walk, (Paseo del Rio) Š The Circus Museum. Like all of Carole Marsh Mysteries, this mystery incorporates history, geography, culture and cliffhanger chapters that will keep kids begging for more! This mystery includes SAT words, educational facts, fun and humor, built-in book club and activities. Below is the Reading Levels Guide for this book: Grade Levels: 3-6 Accelerated Reader Reading Level: 4.7 Accelerated Reader Points: 2 Accelerated Reader Quiz Number: 74561 Lexile Measure: 720 Fountas & Pinnell Guided Reading Level: Q Developmental Assessment Level: 40

Download or read book San Antonio de Bexar written by William Corner and published by . This book was released on 1890 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Bexar the History and Records of a South Texas Ghost Town written by Art Martinez de vara and published by . This book was released on 2020-06 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Download or read book Old Rendering Plant written by Wolfgang Hilbig and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "It starts when a young boy becomes obsessed with an empty and decayed coal plant, coming to believe that it is tied to mysterious disappearances throughout the countryside. But as a young man, with the building now turned into an abattoir processing dead animals, he revisits this place and his memories of it, realizing just how much he has missed."--Page 4 of cover.