Saving San Antonio: The Precarious Preservation of a Heritage

by Lewis F. Fisher

Book Overview

Few American cities enjoy the likes of San Antonio's visual links with its dramatic past. The Alamo and four other Spanish missions, plus a host of additional landmarks and folkways surviving over the course of nearly three centuries, still lend San Antonio an "odd and antiquated foreignness."Adding to the charm of the nation's ninth largest city is a bend in the San Antonio River, saved to become a winding linear park through the heart of downtown...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0896723720
• ISBN13: 9780896723726
• Release Date: November 1996
• Publisher: Texas Tech University Press
• Length: 552 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 2.0" x 7.3" x 10.3"