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A companion book to San Antonio: Our Story of 150 Years within the Alamo City, Early San Antonio looks on the city’s history within the years preceding 1865. More than 200 features from the pages of the San Antonio Express-News profile aspects of history and culture from prehistoric times to the Civil War. Sections, arranged by theme, are abundantly illustrated to provide a unique view of the area we now call San Antonio.
Starting with the city’s prehistoric past, fossils from twenty-one various kinds of dinosaurs date back to the Mesozoic Era create a bountiful picture of earth life in Central Texas. San Antonio’s strong regional connection with the people and rock art of the Lower Pecos Canyonlands is detailed, as is the story of the Payaya Indians who lived along the San Antonio River and were the first indigenous people to be converted at Mission San Antonio de Valero―which later turned into the Alamo. Early Spanish explorers like Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca and non secular figures like Fray Antonio de Olivares set the stage for San Antonio’s missions within the 1700s, which helped San Antonio turn into the largest Spanish settlement in Texas. In the course of the pre–Civil War tumult of the 1833 Battle of the Alamo to the annexation of Texas by america in 1845, the writers of the San Antonio Express-News capture the city’s vibrant and diverse past. Early San Antonio tells the story of San Antonio before it was once San Antonio.
Starting with the city’s prehistoric past, fossils from twenty-one various kinds of dinosaurs date back to the Mesozoic Era create a bountiful picture of earth life in Central Texas. San Antonio’s strong regional connection with the people and rock art of the Lower Pecos Canyonlands is detailed, as is the story of the Payaya Indians who lived along the San Antonio River and were the first indigenous people to be converted at Mission San Antonio de Valero―which later turned into the Alamo. Early Spanish explorers like Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca and non secular figures like Fray Antonio de Olivares set the stage for San Antonio’s missions within the 1700s, which helped San Antonio turn into the largest Spanish settlement in Texas. In the course of the pre–Civil War tumult of the 1833 Battle of the Alamo to the annexation of Texas by america in 1845, the writers of the San Antonio Express-News capture the city’s vibrant and diverse past. Early San Antonio tells the story of San Antonio before it was once San Antonio.
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