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by Lewis F. Fisher
San Antonio’s five Spanish missions, which include the Alamo, were being pulled from the brink of destruction at the beginning of the twentieth century just as picture postcards came into vogue. In Al... more...
ISBN zz1152
$12.95
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by translated by Regina Beckman Hurst & Walter D. Kamphoefner
In 1848 Carl Hilmar Guenther, 22, dropped his parents a farewell note in the mail and left Germany for America. After checking opportunities in New York, the Midwest and along the Mississippi, he disc... more...
ISBN zz117x
$14.95
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by Lewis F. Fisher
Residents of suburban Balcones Heights incorporated in 1948 to gain zoning protection only to find themselves having to rely on revenue from traffic fines to run the city. Then two interstate highways... more...
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$10.00
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by Lewis F. Fisher
C. H. Guenther & Son, founded by a young German immigrant in 1851, is now a San Antonio-based food company with three plants and nearly one hundred products, many of them having nationwide distrib... more...
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$24.95
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by Lewis F. Fisher
Crown Jewel of Texas tells of the century-long transformation of a wayward stream into an architectural and engineering triumph. San Antonio’s two-mile River Walk, by some measures the top tourist att... more...
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$24.95
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by Lewis F. Fisher
As the nation undertook the business of winning two world wars, tens of thousands of soldiers and airmen served tours of duty at San Antonio’s major bases. Those times coincided with a surge in popula... more...
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$14.95
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by Mason L. Matthews
A veterinary career spanning nearly a half century of work with large animals is distilled in these entertaining vignettes. Dr. Matthews served as veterinarian for the San Antonio Zoo, was among the f... more...
ISBN 9781893271104
$9.95
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by Donald E. Everett
Frontier San Antonio attracted a great many short-tempered miscreants and adventurers. It also drew missionary priests, conservative merchants and proper ladies, who established a polite society amids... more...
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$22.50
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by Donald E. Everett
Frontier San Antonio attracted a great many short-tempered miscreants and adventurers. It also drew missionary priests, conservative merchants and proper ladies, who established a polite society amids... more...
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$14.95
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Architecture and Society in a Gilded Age
by Donald E. Everett
The 100-block Monte Vista National Historic District survives nearly intact from San Antonio’s Gilded Age, when newly-prosperous residents built the finest neighborhood of the era remaining in Texas. ... more...
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$32.95
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Architecture and Society in a Gilded Age
by Donald E. Everett
The 100-block Monte Vista National Historic District survives nearly intact from San Antonio’s Gilded Age, when newly-prosperous residents built the finest neighborhood of the era remaining in Texas. ... more...
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$22.50
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by Lewis F. Fisher
San Antonio’s unique appeal is the pervasive ambience of a colorful, authentic past. This portrait in words and pictures covers the evolution of the city over the course of nearly three centuries, fro... more...
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$24.95
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by Lewis L. Fisher
San Antonio’s unique appeal is the pervasive ambience of a colorful, authentic past. This portrait in words and pictures covers the evolution of the city over the course of nearly three centuries, fro... more...
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$16.95
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by Lewis F. Fisher
San Antonio’s five Spanish missions are a national treasure. Built by Franciscan friars on the far frontier of New Spain, they stand today as the largest cluster of Spanish missions in the United Stat... more...
ISBN 9780965150750
$26.95
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by Lewis F. Fisher
San Antonio’s five Spanish missions are a national treasure. Built by Franciscan friars on the far frontier of New Spain, they stand today as the largest cluster of Spanish missions in the United Stat... more...
ISBN 9780965150767
$16.95
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