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300 YEARS OF SAN ANTONIO & BEXAR COUNTY EDITED BY CLAUDIA GUERRA

trinity university press THE ICONIC STORIES, MOMENTS, PEOPLE, AND PLACES THAT DEFINE ONE OF THE OLDEST COMMUNITIES IN THE UNITED STATES 300 Years of San Antonio & Bexar County captures the iconic stories, moments, people, and places that define one of the oldest communities in the United States. A collection of diverse authors joined forces to produce this richly illustrated and complexly woven thematic telling of the city’s history. From its earliest legacy as home to many indigenous peoples to its municipal founding by the Canary Islanders, a convergence of people from across the globe have settled, sacrificed, and successfully shaped the culture of San Antonio. The result is a 21st-century community that strives to balance diverse heritage with a vibrant economy thanks to stories from the past that provide lessons for the future.

CLAUDIA GUERRA is a writer and native San Antonian who graduated from UTSA before heading off to Washington, D.C., and New York. After living in New York for sixteen years, she returned to San Antonio in 2005 with her husband, also a Texan, so they could

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raise their two young children. Claudia works

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in the City of San Antonio’s Office of Historic

$35.00 • 256 PAGES • 11 X 8.5

Preservation as the city’s Cultural Historian.

160 PHOTOGRAPHS HARDCOVER: 9781595348494 EBOOK: 9781595348500

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THE CHANGING FACE OF SAN ANTONIO

An Insider’s View of an Emerging International City

BY NELSON W. WOLFF

NELSON W. WOLFF, the mayor of San Antonio from 1991 to 1995, enacted several major economic developments for the city. He is the author of Mayor:

An Inside View of San Antonio Politics, 1981–1995 and Baseball for Real Men: Seven Spiritual Laws for Senior

trinity university press AN INSIDER’S LOOK AT THE CONTINUED GROWTH OF THE SEVENTH-LARGEST CITY IN AMERICA The Changing Face of San Antonio explores six transformative city and countywide efforts that have emerged in the past decade: the Mission Reach expansion of the iconic River Walk, an eight-mile extension of one of the city’s most valued resources; the renovation of the San Antonio Municipal Auditorium into the Tobin Center for the Performing Arts; the much-needed expansion of the University Health System; criminal justice reform; the city’s efforts to become a tech leader in biomedicine, aerospace, and cybersecurity; and the creation of BiblioTech, the country’s first all-digital public library. Wolff offers an insider’s view of the key issues that shaped these efforts. Nelson Wolff, Bexar County judge and former San Antonio mayor, has been an active participant in the city’s political and business community for five decades. With journalistic ease, Wolff uses his unique viewpoint to recount the complexity of each endeavor—who said what to whom, when, and how—at a lively pace. The Changing Face of San Antonio reflects his passion for San Antonio and, as one might expect, his confidence in the paths taken under his leadership to help the city achieve its goals.

Players. He currently serves as Bexar County judge. NOVEMBER 2018 REGIONAL • HISTORY $18.95 • 248 PAGES • 8.25 X 5.5 PAPERBACK: 9781595348470 EBOOK: 9781595348487

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BOB AND HELEN KLEBERG OF KING RANCH BY HELEN KLEBERG GROVES

HELEN KLEBERG GROVES, the only child of Robert J. and Helen C. Kleberg, was raised on the King Ranch in Kingville, Texas. Groves is a successful rancher, raising Santa Gertrudis and crossbred cattle, and she continues to

trinity university press A MEMOIR OF ONE OF THE LARGEST AND MOST INFLUENTIAL CATTLE RANCHES IN AMERICAN HISTORY King Ranch. The name is embroidered in the tapestry of Texas, rising from the sunbaked coastal plains in the infancy of the state itself. King Ranch is the inspiration of legends and speculation, tradition and history. Rawhide-tough through drought, Indian attacks, Civil War, and the Great Depression, among other trials, King Ranch is the star of Texas. Now the memoirs of Helen King Kleberg Alexander-Groves, the only child of Bob and Helen Kleberg, give a personal glimpse of life on the storied ranch of the Kings and the Klebergs. This intimate book features more than 200 photographs and chronicles not only the history of the property but also the life of Bob and Helen Kleberg, the first family of cattle ranching. From the Santa Gertrudis, the first cattle breed developed in America and the first breed recognized worldwide in over a century, to the Triple Crown– winning Thoroughbred Assault, Bob and Helen Kleberg changed the ranching industry. The memoirs of “Helenita” open the door to the romance of Southwest cattle ranching, as well as the grit, glory, and inner workings of King Ranch in Texas and its ranches around the world.

breed and race Thoroughbreds and Quarter

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Horses, primarily of the King Ranch AQHA registered strains. She is an avid quail hunter and resides in South Texas.

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“Stunning...a beautifully illustrated book.” — San antonio express-news

“the photographs alone–most never published before– make it worth the price for fans of texas and ranching history.” — Dallas morning News

CORNYATION

San Antonio’s Outrageous Fiesta Tradition

BY AMY L. STONE

AMY STONE is an associate professor of sociology and anthropology at Trinity University. She is the author of Gay Rights at the Ballot Box and the coeditor, with Jaime Cantrell, of Out

of the Closet, into the Archives: Researching Sexual Histories. Stone’s areas of study include

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HALF A CENTURY OF ONE OF TEXAS’S MOST ICONIC CELEBRATIONS Fiesta San Antonio began in 1891 as a parade in honor of the battles of the Alamo and San Jacinto and has evolved into an annual Mardi Gras-like festival attended by four million with more than 100 cultural events raising money for nonprofit organizations in San Antonio, Texas. At Fiesta’s start, the events were socially exclusive, one of the most prominent being the Coronation of the Queen of the Order of the Alamo, a lavish, debutante pageant crowning a queen of the festival. Cornyation was created in 1951 by members of San Antonio’s theater community as a satire, mocking the elite with their own flamboyant duchesses, empresses, and queens, accompanied by men in drag and local political figures in outrageous costume. The stage show quickly transformed into a controversial parody of local and national politics and culture. Told through more than one hundred photographs and dozens of interviews, Cornyation is the first history of this major Fiesta San Antonio event, tracing how it has become one of Texas’s iconic and longestrunning celebrations, and one of the Southwest’s first large-scale fundraisers for HIV-AIDS research, raising more than two million dollars since 1990.

lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender politics and the incorporation of LGBT individuals into

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communities and cities, and the law. She lives in

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Austin, Texas.

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“Amy Stone has fun with this phenomenon, while taking it seriously on a sociological level. The pictures are out of this world!” ––AUSTIN-AMERICAN STATESMAN

“part scrapbook, part crash course.” ––SAN ANTONIO CURRENT

HOMETOWN TEXAS PHOTOGRAPHS BY PETER BROWN STORIES BY JOE HOLLEY

trinity university press PHOTOGRAPHS AND STORIES THAT EXPLORE THE PEOPLE AND LANDSCAPES OF SMALL-TOWN TEXAS

Peter Brown and Joe Holley are interested in place and what makes people who they are. With particular interest in how people take the hand they’ve been dealt—fate, family, circumstance, luck— and craft a life for themselves, the authors celebrate the grit and gumption of these Texas originals. Introducing quirky characters and tenacious spirits, Holley’s stories seek out the personality of the small town while Brown’s photographs capture the essence of a changing landscape.

Hometown Texas aims not to be nostalgic or sentimental but rather to show readers an unknown Texas—one that, while not vanishing, is certainly on the wane. Through three dozen stories and more than eighty complementary images, Hometown Texas is an exploration across miles and cultures, of well-traveled roads and forgotten byways, deep into the heart of Texas.

PETER BROWN is the author of Seasons of Light, On

the Plains, and West of Last Chance. His photographs are in collections across the U.S. including MoMA New York and the Getty Museum. He teaches photography at Rice University and lives in Houston. JOE HOLLEY’s column “Native Texan” appears in the

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Houston Chronicle on Sundays. He is a regular contributor

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to Texas Monthly and the Columbia Journalism Review

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and is the author of two books, including a biography of

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football hero Slingin’ Sammy Baugh.

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from the introduction

The Texas that most Americans know from the headlines, the magazine stories and the movies is not necessarily the Lone Star State that Peter Brown and I know. As a photographer and a writer, we each find our Texas more appealing, in part because it’s fast passing, in part because we find it beautiful in an unaffected way. The Texas we know is off the busy interstates, beyond the metropolitan regions spreading amoeba-like into the surrounding countryside. It’s rural, smalltown and slower-paced. Even today, it’s much more connected to the land, to the pine forests and pasture, the rich river bottoms and the vast stretches of rangeland that drew early settlers to Texas in the first place. The Texas we know and appreciate also is more intimately connected to the state’s frontier heritage.

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HUMANS OF SAN ANTONIO BY MICHAEL CIRLOS

MICHAEL CIRLOS founded Humans of San

Antonio, a photojournalism project inspired by Humans of New York, to celebrate the visual story of downtown San Antonio. He holds a degree from the University of Texas at San Antonio, and he is the recipient of the Awesome SA Community Award. Humans of

trinity university press STREET PHOTOGRAPHY HIGHLIGHTING THE VIBRANT CULTURE AND PEOPLE OF SAN ANTONIO Along with Humans of New York, which aims to share the stories of New Yorkers, Humans of San Antonio is part of the Global Humans Project, a network of major cities around the world dedicated to capturing a glimpse into the lives of everyday citizens. San Antonio joins the ranks of cities from Amsterdam to Rio de Janeiro, photographed and shown through social media to the world. Michael Cirlos, the photojournalist behind Humans of San Antonio, started the social media project in 2012, combining photography and storytelling to celebrate the city’s growing downtown community. The book Humans of San Antonio is the culmination of five years of his photographs highlighting San Antonio’s vibrant culture and people. As a community that has weathered economic imbalance and proven itself a leader in urban redevelopment and twenty-first-century innovation, San Antonio embraces change while championing the diversity, history, and individuality that make it unique. Through images and his subjects’ own stories, Cirlos communicates not just vulnerability to fear, sadness, and anger but also resilience, hope, tolerance, and perseverance. Humans of San Antonio is a unique photography collection that celebrates the international collaborative that forms its roots. JUNE 2018

San Antonio is his first book.

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from the foreword by the author The Humans of San Antonio project is not a ‘they’ or a ‘he’ or a ‘she’. it represents the entire community coming together, celebrating our differences, and wanting not just a place to exist but a place to truly live.

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JUAN O’GORMAN A Confluence of Civilizations

BY CATHERINE NIXON COOKE

A Juan O’Gorman B A C O N F LU E N C E & C I V I L I Z AT I O N S

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CATHERINE NIXON COOKE is the former president and CEO of the Mountain Institute, an international nonprofit with four field offices in the Himalayas, and the former executive director of

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trinity university press MEXICAN ARTIST JUAN O’GORMAN AND HIS FAMED SAN ANTONIO MURAL Juan O’Gorman: A Confluence of Civilizations follows O’Gorman’s life and the creation of his mural Confluence of Civilizations in the Americas, a spectacular piece of midcentury public art that stands the test of time as one of the Mexican artist’s most influential works. O’Gorman was a muralist, painter, mosaic artist, critic, and professor, as well as an architect. He is possibly best known for his close friendship with Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo and as the designer of their unconventional twohouse studio in Mexico City. While studying architecture at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, O’Gorman became a follower of Franco-German rationalism and was one of the first Mexican architects to break from the traditional style. He went on to create the world’s largest mural on the university’s massive Central Library. O’Gorman was commissioned to create the Confluence of Civilizations in the Americas mural, which today adorns one wall of the convention center along San Antonio’s River Walk. The mural’s unveiling at HemisFair ‘68 marked a shift in San Antonio’s history, transforming its cultural landscape from one of Spanish colonial settlement and antebellum America into a crossroads of many cultures.

the Mind Science Foundation. The author of Tom

Slick, Mystery Hunter and The Thistle and the Rose:

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Romance, Railroads, and Big Oil in Revolutionary

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Mexico, she lives in San Antonio, Texas.

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“the book strikes many confluent chords that will resonate in the hearts and minds of readers on both sides of the us-mexico border.” — San antonio express-news

MAVERICK

The American Name That Became a Legend

trinity university press A CULTURAL EXPLORATION OF THE ICONIC WORD AND THE FAMILY WHO MADE IT LEGEND

BY LEWIS F. FISHER The word maverick has evolved in the English language from being the term for an unbranded stray calf to a label given to a nontraditional person or to a more extreme “uncontrollable individualist, iconoclast, unstable nonconformist.” Of all words that originated in the Old West, maverick is the least understood and most corrupted. But where did the word come from? Samuel A. Maverick was a notable Texas rancher in his own time, but his fame is based on legend. No amount of truth-telling about the word maverick seems to have slowed the tall tales surrounding the word’s origination.

LEWIS F. FISHER has published forty-five books on topics ranging from San Antonio’s Spanish heritage to its urban development, and from the military to sports, architecture,

Maverick: The American Name That Became a Legend is a whodunit, a historical account of the man who unwittingly inspired the term, the family it’s derived from, the cowboys who embraced it as an adjective meaning rakish and independent, the curious inquirers intrigued by the stories, and the appropriators who have borrowed it for political fame.

and multicultural legends. He has written numerous books himself, recently including

Chili Queens, Hay Wagons, and Fandangos:

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The Spanish Plazas in Frontier San Antonio and Saving San Antonio: The Preservation of

a Heritage. Fisher has received was named a Texas Preservation Hero by the Conservation

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Society in 2014.

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7 fascinating facts about the word

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Pete Mitchell, Tom Cruise’s character in the film Top Gun, had the nickname “Maverick.”

Maverick was first used as a noun to mean an unbranded stray calf.

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Maverick is the name of a 1950s Western TV series that starred James Garner and Jack Kelly.

Sam Maverick, the man behind the word, signed the Texas Declaration of Independence.

Merriam-Webster lists maverick in the top 10 percent of its most-looked-up words. Maury Maverick invented the word gobbledygook, which was J.K. Rowling’s inspiration for Gobbledegook, the language of goblins in her series, Harry Potter.

Maverick is also the name of a Curling Club in Calgary, a hostel in Siberia, a county in Texas, a saloon in Alaska, a pizza restaurant in London, a type of mesquite tree, an Air Force missile, and a brand of playing cards.

SAN ANTONIO 1718 Art From Mexico

EDITED BY MARION OETTINGER JR.

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WORKS OF ART THAT PUT SAN ANTONIO’S FOUNDING IN CONTEXT

Three hundred years ago San Antonio was a outpost of presidios and missions on the edge of northern New Spain, imposing Spanish political and religious principles on this contested, often hostile region. San Antonio 1718 presents a wealth of art depicting a rich blending of sometimes conflicted cultures—explorers, colonialists, and indigenous peoples—and places the city’s founding in context. The book is organized into three sections on people and places, the family, and the church. In San Antonio 1718, more than a hundred portraits, landscapes, religious paintings, and devotional and secular objects reveal the culture that reflected and supported this region’s evolving worldview, signaling how New Spain saw itself and its vast colonial and religious ambitions prior to the emergence of an independent Mexico and, subsequently, the state of Texas.

MARION OETTINGER JR is the curator of Latin American Art and the former Kelso Director of the San Antonio Museum of Art. A cultural anthropologist and art historian specializing in Latin American art and culture, he has lectured throughout the United States, Europe, and Latin America. He is project

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director of the San Antonio 1718 exhibition.

ART • REGIONAL • HISTORY $32.50 • 130 COLOR PHOTOS • 11 X 8.5 EBOOK: 9781595348357 HARDCOVER: 9781595348340

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from the foreword by the editor The community of San Antonio is intimately linked to Mexico—its people, its history, its culture. More than 60 percent of the city’s population shares Mexican roots that are expressed in language, education, arts, religion, culinary tastes, music, the spirit of fiesta and, above all, in family connections that have bridged political boundaries and flourished for more than three hundred years.

SAN ANTONIO 1718 IS ORGANIZED INTO THREE SECTIONS: “PEOPLE AND PLACES” features art depicting the lives of ordinary people. Such art is rare since most painting and sculpture from the period was made in service to the church, the crown, or wealthy families.

“cycle of life” includes a selection of individual and family portraits representing people in different stages of life.

“the church” shows how Catholicism and all the major religious orders–the Franciscans, the Dominicans, the Jesuits, and the Augustinians–played significant roles in proselytizing indigenous populations of northern New Spain

THE SPIRIT OF TEQUILA BY JOEL SALCIDO

trinity university press PHOTOGRAPHS CAPTURING THE CULTURE AND BEAUTY OF TEQUILA Agave dates back to the Aztec civilization as an important crop in Mexico. Since the 1600s the people of western Mexico have cultivated blue agave from the red volcanic soil that blankets the region to make what we know as tequila. The Spirit of Tequila celebrates the tradition and culture of this iconic drink. Joel Salcido traveled across Jalisco and neighboring Mexican states capturing images of distilleries and artisanal tequileras, including blue agave fields at sunset, the agave’s pineapple-like centers (piñas), elegantly shadowed barrel rooms (añejos), and the agave farmers themselves. Nearly ninety photographs, taken with a medium format camera—some full color, some duotone—reveal not only the tequila making process but also the region’s culture and traditions. Exploring the rooms and techniques of legendary distilleries Herradura, Sauza, Jose Cuervo, Don Julio, and others, The Spirit of Tequila celebrates a craft that is rooted in the culture of Mexico.

JOEL SALCIDO’S images appear in the collections of the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, the El Paso Museum of Art, the Harry Ransom Humanities Center at the University of Texas at Austin, and the Wittliff Collections at Texas State University. Salcido lives in Austin, Texas.

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from the Foreword by paul salopek

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Unlike its brother and sister liquors (whiskeys, gins, vodkas, chachas, ryes, bourbons, scotch, etc.), the raw material of tequila is neither seeds nor roots. No, it is the plant’s very core, its heart.

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ARTE KIDS

1, 2, 3, SÍ!

Numbers in English y Español

FROM THE SERIES BY MADELEINE BUDNICK

trinity university press LEARN HOW TO COUNT IN ENGLISH AND SPANISH WITH ART!

ArteKids board books show children the world of art through imaginative paintings, sculpture, photographs, and drawings, with text in English and Spanish. 1, 2, 3, Sí! introduces children to the fundamentals of numbers and counting by connecting them to the world of art in a unique, fun, and colorful way. Numbers one (uno) to ten (diez) are represented by masterful artworks from around the world. Five (cinco) tigers come alive on painted scrolls from Korea. Colorful Mexican toy puppets that seem to dance represents six (seis). Ten (diez) masks from Mexico and Papua New Guinea excite and spark imaginations. Work from the collections of the San Antonio Museum of Art, by masters like Julian Garcia, John George Brown, Faith Ringgold, and Hunt Slonem, is incorporated with phrases and words in English and Spanish, making bilingual learning and art exciting for young learners and their teachers and parents.

MADELEINE BUDNICK is the author, series editor, and designer of the ArteKids books. She brings to the series a passion for the arts (she holds a degree in art history and drawing) and a commitment to creating books that aim to inspire and enrich a child’s world. In addition, she is deeply committed to language education and celebrating cultural

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richness. She lives in Portland, Oregon.

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ANIMAL AMIGOS! Artsy Creatures in English y Español

FROM THE SERIES BY MADELEINE BUDNICK

MADELEINE BUDNICK is the author, series editor, and designer of the ArteKids

LEARN ABOUT ANIMALS IN ENGLISH AND SPANISH WITH EYECATCHING WORKS OF ART!

ArteKids board books show children the world of art through imaginative paintings, sculpture, photographs, and drawings, with text in English and Spanish. Animal Amigos! introduces young minds to exciting animal life by connecting them to the world of art in a unique, fun, and colorful way. Deer (ciervos) frolic across a field on a Chinese vase from the Qing dynasty while a deer rests above in a lithograph by J.T. Bowen. Animals at the water’s edge (animales que viven en y fuera del agua) are represented by masterful artworks from around the world. Big cats (grandes felinos) play and pounce across the page in a mask, painting, and wood carving. Work from the collections of the San Antonio Museum of Art, by masters like Dionicio Rodríguez, Edward Hicks, Diego Rivera, J.T. Bowen, Elena Carrillo, and Pablo Cosillo, is incorporated with phrases and words in English and Spanish, making bilingual learning and art exciting for young learners and their teachers and parents.

books. She brings to the series a passion for the arts (she holds a degree in art history and drawing) and a commitment to creating books that aim to inspire and enrich a child’s world. In addition, she is deeply committed to language education and celebrating cultural

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richness. She lives in Portland, Oregon.

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BLACK & BLANCO Engaging Art in English y Español

FROM THE SERIES BY MADELEINE BUDNICK

trinity university press LEARN CONTRASTING COLORS IN ENGLISH AND SPANISH WITH EYE-CATCHING WORKS OF ART!

With ArteKids, children discover the world of art and learn English and Spanish at the same time. Introduce your child to the fundamentals of contrasting colors while connecting them to the world of art in a unique, fun, and colorful way. The book incorporates artwork found in the collections of the San Antonio Museum of Art with phrases and words in English and Spanish to make bilingual learning and art exciting for eager young learners and their teachers and parents.

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richness. She lives in Portland, Oregon.

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COLORES EVERYWHERE! Colors in English y Español

FROM THE SERIES BY MADELEINE BUDNICK

trinity university press LEARN COLORS IN ENGLISH AND SPANISH WITH EYECATCHING WORKS OF ART! ArteKids board books show children the world of art through imaginative paintings, sculpture, photographs, and drawings, with text in English and Spanish. Colores Everywhere! introduces young minds to vivid colors by connecting them to the world of art in a unique, fun, and colorful way. Work from the collections of the San Antonio Museum of Art, by masters like Alfonso Suarez, Joey Fausero, Miguel Covarrubias, Manuel Jiménez, Robert Indiana, Shibata Zeshin, Felipe B. Archuleta, and Dale Chihuly, is incorporated with phrases and words in English and Spanish, making bilingual learning and art exciting for young learners and their teachers and parents. Colores Everywhere! invites children to explore art with vivid colors using language and imagery that ignites their imagination.

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richness. She lives in Portland, Oregon.

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HELLO CIRUCULOS! Shapes in English y Español

FROM THE SERIES BY MADELEINE BUDNICK

trinity university press LEARN DIFFERENT SHAPES IN ENGLISH AND SPANISH WITH EYE-CATCHING WORKS OF ART! ArteKids board books show children the world of art through imaginative paintings, sculpture, photographs, and drawings, with text in English and Spanish. Hello, Círculos! introduces children to the fundamentals of shapes by connecting them to the world of art in a unique, fun, and colorful way. Work from the collections of the San Antonio Museum of Art, by masters like Thomas Downing, Frank Stella, Celia Alvarez Muñoz, Cruz Ortiz, Wai Ching Lam, Julio Alpuy, Enrique Zavala Aguilar, and Philip Guston, is incorporated with phrases and words in English and Spanish, making bilingual learning and art exciting for young learners and their teachers and parents. Hello, Círculos! invites children to learn the shapes that make up our world using language and imagery that ignites their imagination.

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richness. She lives in Portland, Oregon.

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OUTSIDE TODO EL DÍA! Nature in English y Español

FROM THE SERIES BY MADELEINE BUDNICK

trinity university press A BILINGUAL CARD BOOK THAT HELPS CHILDREN EXPLORE THE NATURAL WORLD THROUGH ART

ArteKids board books show children the world of art through imaginative paintings, sculpture, photographs, and drawings, with text in English and Spanish. Outside Todo el Día! introduces children to the wonders of nature by connecting them to art in a unique, fun, and colorful way. Work from the collections of the San Antonio Museum of Art, by masters like Alfred Thompson Bricher, Alma Nungarrayi Granites, Betty Carrington, Winslow Homer, Nicolino Calyo, Martin Johnson Heade, Armand Guillaumin, Ernest Lawson, and Lori LeJeune, is incorporated with phrases and words in English and Spanish, making bilingual learning and art exciting for young learners and their teachers and parents. Outside Todo el Día! invites children to explore the world outside through language and imagery that ignites their imagination.

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richness. She lives in Portland, Oregon.

CHILDREN’S • ART $7.95 • 16 PAGES • 7 X 7 HARDCOVER: 9781595348302 EBOOK: 9781595348319

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otoño SEASONS ESTACIONES Do you have a favorite season?

¿Cuál es tu estación favorita?

winter

summer verano

invierno

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cielo sky

What a cloudy day! Do you think the wind is blowing? ¡Qué día tan nublado! ¿Crees que el viento está soplando?

tierra land

agua water

rocas rocks orilla shore

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VAMOS, BODY! Head to Toe in English y Español

FROM THE SERIES BY MADELEINE BUDNICK

trinity university press A BILINGUAL CARD BOOK THAT EXPLORES BODY CONCEPTS USING ART FROM SAMA Arte Kids board books show children the world of art through imaginative paintings, sculpture, photographs, and drawings, with text in English and Spanish. Vamos, Body! introduces young minds to body concepts by connecting them to art in a unique, fun, and colorful way. Work from the collections of the San Antonio Museum of Art, by masters like José Francisco Borges, Richard Duardo, Roberto de la Selva, Charles Criner, David Martinez, Rojelio Reyes Rodriguez, Grace Albee, and Luis Gonzalez Palma, is incorporated with phrases and words in English and Spanish, making bilingual learning and art exciting for young learners and their teachers and parents. Vamos, Body! invites children to dance and play using language and imagery that ignites their imagination.

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richness. She lives in Portland, Oregon.

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“children and adults will find much to savor in these titles– so much, in fact, that they may even be inspired to connect with their inner picassos.” — Kirkus Reviews

¿La barbilla de este hombre apunte hacia arriba o hacia abajo?

barbilla ~ chin

¡Contémoslas!

Is this man’s chin pointing up or down?

Let’s count them!

And this woman’s chin?

cheek ~ mejilla

FAC ES

¿Y que tal la barbilla de esta mujer?

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¡Mmm! ¿Te gusta disfrazarte?

DEDOS PIES ~ TOES

de los

Hmmm, do you like to play dress up?

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OTHER BOOKS IN THE

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Now let’s dance from head to toe! ¡Ahora bailemos de la cabeza a los pies!

bones ~ huesos 8/14/17 4:27 PM

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AMERICAN VENICE

The Epic Story of San Antonio’s River

BY LEWIS F. FISHER

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STORIES ABOUT THE RIVERWALK’S EVOLUTION FROM 1941 TO 2014

In American Venice, Lewis 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, and bursts of creativity culminated in the completion of a Works Project Administration undertaking designed by Robert H. H. Hugman. The resulting River Walk languished for years but enjoyed renewed interest during the 1968 World’s Fair, held in San Antonio, and has since become the center of the city’s cultural and historical narrative. Fisher shares stories about the River Walk’s evolution including information about the Museum and Mission Reaches, two expansions of the River Walk that are vital to San Antonio’s continued growth as the seventh largest city in the country.

LEWIS F. FISHER has published forty-five books on topics ranging from San Antonio’s Spanish heritage to its urban development, and from the military to sports, architecture, and multicultural legends. He has written numerous books himself, recently including

Chili Queens, Hay Wagons, and Fandangos: The Spanish Plazas in Frontier San Antonio

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and Saving San Antonio: The Preservation of

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a Heritage. Fisher has received was named a Texas Preservation Hero by the Conservation Society in 2014.

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CHILI QUEENS, HAY WAGONS, AND FANDANGOS

The Spanish Plazas in Frontier San Antonio BY LEWIS F. FISHER

LEWIS F. FISHER has published forty-five

trinity university press SNAPSHOTS OF A MORE COLORFUL TIME IN SAN ANTONIO HISTORY

As San Antonio’s frontier era was ending in the 1870s and 1880s, Military Plaza was a vivid outdoor market. By night it was a crowded dining venue where storied chili queens dished out spicy meals and saloons and fandango halls pulsed nearby. A cathedral dating from 1738 faced Main Plaza, where Apache chieftains and Spaniards had long ago buried a hatchet, a lance, six arrows, and a horse to signify peace. Plazas were the heart of San Antonio since its earliest days on the remote northern frontier of New Spain. Not until a railroad was built in 1877, providing easy access to the rest of the nation, did San Antonio experience the rapid growth that made it more like cities elsewhere.

Chili Queens, Hay Wagons, and Fandangos displays more than 100 rarely seen images of San Antonio, bringing to life the frontier era of one of America’s unique cities, seen through its Spanish plazas. Colorful iconic paintings and drawings are mixed with nineteenth-century photographic stereoviews and cabinet cards.

books on topics ranging from San Antonio’s Spanish heritage to its urban development, and from the military to sports, architecture, and multicultural legends. He has written

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numerous books himself, recently including

Saving San Antonio: The Preservation of a Heritage. Fisher has received was named a Texas Preservation Hero by the Conservation

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Society in 2014. $38.95 • 112 PAGES • 10 X 10 HARDCOVER: 9781595346711

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COLORS ON CLAY

The San José Tile Workshops of San Antonio

BY SUSAN TOOMEY FROST

C O L O R S O N C L AY T I L E S F RO M T H E S A N J O S É WO R K S H O P S

Susan Toomey Frost

SUSAN TOOMEY FROST is the leading authority on San José decorative art tiles and pottery produced by workshops in San Antonio and Mexico. She has taught English and linguistics at universities in Mexico and Texas. An avid collector,

trinity university press A STUDY OF THE SCENIC TILES PRODUCED IN SAN ANTONIO FROM THE 1930S TO THE 1970S Against the backdrop of the Arts and Crafts Movement and the Great Depression, Ethel Wilson Harris and her talented designer, Fernando Ramos, became the driving forces behind three art tile factories—Mexican Arts and Crafts, San José Potteries, and Mission Crafts—known collectively as the San José Workshops, operating between 1931 and 1977. Together with the Arts and Crafts Division of the Work Projects Administration, they led the revival of a dying Mexican art in order to create tiles and artifacts that would become celebrated throughout the United States.

Colors on Clay brings to life the rich artistry, designers, and styles that brought the colorful tiles, bowls, plates, and other wares produced by the San José Workshops in San Antonio, Texas, into prominence nationally. Intertwining art, personality profiles, and history, Susan Toomey Frost presents the first definitive account of this intriguing story. With more than 300 illustrations of tiles and related clay objects, as well as never-before-seen tile sketches and historical photographs, Colors on Clay provides a well-researched and lively documentation of a previously unexamined aspect of Texas art.

she has written articles, given lectures, and curated exhibitions. She lives in San Antonio. SEPTEMBER 2009 TEXAS • REGIONAL • ART $45.00 • 264 PAGES • 10.5 X 10.5 HARDCOVER: 9781595340535

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ENCHILADAS Aztec to Tex-Mex

BY CHRIS WATERS DUNN & CAPPY LAWTON

trinity university press EXPLORING ONE OF MEXICO’S MOST POPULAR FOODS

Enchiladas: Aztec to Tex-Mex is a comprehensive exploration of one of Mexico’s most historic and popular foods. Illustrated with sumptuous photography, the collection showcases more than sixty traditional and contemporary recipes for enchiladas, as well as recipes for the salsas, salads, and sides that accompany them. It is a complete guide to enchilada cooking techniques with step-by-step instructions for preparing, assembling, plating, and garnishing each dish. Enchiladas also provides abundant information about many other key ingredients of Mexican cuisine, including avocados, chiles, tomatoes, tomatillos, nopales (cactus), cheeses, herbs, and spices. Experience the history of Mexico through its most delicious ambassador, the enchilada!

CAPPY LAWTON has designed, developed, and operated twenty-nine restaurants throughout Texas. After studying business and engineering at the University of Texas at Austin and having a successful career as an aeronautical designer, he entered the restaurant business. Lawton and his wife, Suzy, love food and travel and have

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spent many years traveling throughout Mexico.

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CHRIS WATERS DUNN is a San Antonio native and

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holds a graduate degree in creative writing from the University of Denver. Dunn worked for decades in Nashville

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as a songwriter and record producer. As Chris Waters, he wrote dozens of hits, including nine #1 country songs.

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NAME THEM–THEY FLY BETTER Pat Hammond’s Theory of Aerodynamics

BY CHRISTOPHER ORNELAS

trinity university press ONE ARTIST’S LIFE TRANSFORMING THE MUNDANE TO THE MAGICAL. Pat Hammond is not your ordinary artist. In fact, she doesn’t even consider herself an artist. She takes everyday objects, such as spinning tops and jars of cicada shells, and infuses them with new meaning and hope. Through humor and personalization, she uses insignificant and unconventional objects to illuminate a “grand truth” about the world, and even about herself. Author Christopher Ornelas found out about Hammond through her remarkable kite collection—hundreds of kites amassed over twenty years. Hammond’s kites were gathered from every corner of the world. Hammond also designs her own kites, drafting ideas and sketches for numerous creations she has dreamed of flying. Hammond’s idiosyncratic humor soars beyond her kites, and as Ornelas quickly discovers, they are just a stroke on the canvas of an artistic life that includes troves of trinkets laced with whimsy and beautiful intentions, all displayed in Hammond’s home in San Antonio, Texas. With a foreword by poet and friend Naomi Shihab Nye and intimate photographs of Hammond’s home and collections, Name Them—They Fly Better offers a portrait of an artist who has sought to transform each moment into a creative act. APRIL 2017 PHOTOGRAPHY • BIOGRAPHY

CHRISTOPHER ORNELAS is the coauthor of

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Wings of Resistance: The Giant Kites of Guatemala.

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“The Magician’s Oath: A Conversation with Pat Hammond on Magic, Science and the Wind,” one

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of Ornelas’s essays about Pat Hammond, appeared in Discourse at the End of the Line.

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PAINTERS IN PREHISTORY

Archaology and Art of the Lower Pecos Canyonlands

trinity university press THE STORY OF ANCIENT CANYON DWELLERS ALONG THE LOWER PECOS AND THEIR CULTURE

EDITED BY HARRY J. SHAFER The people who inhabited what is now Texas left a unique series of narratives that provide information about almost 12,000 years of existence. Originally published by the Witte Museum (a preeminent museum on southwestern U.S. history) in 1986, Painters in Prehistory is the result of years of dedication to the story of the ancient Rio Grande canyon dwellers. This updated edition features significantly revised research by scholars who have deepened the understanding of rock art interpretation and the life of these prehistoric people, as well as scientific analysis of artifacts and coprolites.

HARRY J. SHAFER is a professor emeritus at Texas A&M University. He was the first archaeologist to join the faculty of Texas A&M University’s College of Liberal Arts and has been active in archaeological research since 1962. He is the author of Mimbres Archaeology at the NAN Ranch Ruin and Ancient Texans: Rock Art and Lifeways along

the Lower Pecos; the coauthor of Field Methods in

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Archaeology and Maya Stone Tools; and the author

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or coauthor of over 300 articles and book chapters. Shafer is curator of archaeology at the Witte

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Museum. He lives in San Antonio, Texas.

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RANCH GATES OF THE SOUTHWEST BY DANIEL M. OLSEN AND HENK VAN ASSEN

DANIEL M. OLSEN is a designer and educator. He has worked on projects with Hard Werken in the Netherlands and Emigre Graphics,

trinity university press A LAVISHLY PHOTOGRAPHED TRIBUTE TO AN ICONIC SYMBOL OF A VANISHING SOUTHWEST In the wide open landscapes of the Southwest, ranch gates stand out as singular icons of a way of life common to the region. Not only symbols of ranching culture, they also offer insight into the design, landscape, and cultural history of the Southwest. Ranch Gates of the Southwest explores in more than 225 images and engaging text how these entryways lead to an understanding of the people and the land across a territory that covers Colorado, Utah, Nevada, Texas, Oklahoma, New Mexico, and Arizona. From rugged and functional to stylized and adorned, gates introduce ranches with names such as F.V. Cuahope Ranch, High Lonesome, Felix River Ranch, and Rancho Quatro Hermanas and reveal cultural history, landscape features, and individualism through language and design.

Ranch Gates of the Southwest is both a sumptuous documentary record and a tribute to a quintessentially American symbol.

and he has exhibited at the Axis Gallery in Tokyo, the Stealcase Design Partnership in New York, and the Galería de la Municipalidad de Miraflores in Lima, Peru. He is an associate professor of design at the University of Texas at Austin. HENK VAN ASSEN‘s studio, HvADesign, focuses on book design and environmental

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graphics. Since 1999 van Assen has been a critic

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at the Yale University School of Art, and from

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2003 to 2008 he was director of undergraduate

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studies. He has also taught at the University of Texas, the School of Visual Arts in New York, and the University of the Arts in Philadelphia.

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THE RANCH THAT WAS US BY BECKY CROUCH PATTERSON

BECKY CROUCH PATTERSON is the author of the Texas best seller Hondo, My Father. She is also a textile artist for more than forty years as well as a liturgical artist and designer. She is the owner of Stieler Hill Ranch which she owns with her sons Kit and

trinity university press A BRASH AND BEAUTIFUL STORY OF A LEGENDARY TEXAS HILL COUNTRY RANCH AND THE FAMILIY WHO CHERISHED IT Braiding strands of earthen insight with uproarious storytelling, legendary Texas Hill Country author Becky Patterson recreates the history of the Stieler Hill Ranch in twenty-four anecdotal chapters interspersed with original artwork. The result is a mixture of memoir and montage, treasure chest and tableau vivant of a world that’s beautiful, brash, and wonderfully heartbreaking. Patterson, the daughter of Texas folk hero and self-proclaimed mayor of Luckenbach, Hondo Crouch, has big shoes to fill, and she does so successfully in this colorful collection of Hill Country and Texas ranch vignettes. Foreman and general cowboy guru Raymond Kuhlmann tells stories of the Goat King and German drinking songs, the buzzard traps and Mexican corridos that filled the nighttime pastures. First-person accounts and vivid historical narratives evoke the ranch’s past, overlaid with Patterson’s unforgettable personal experiences. This book will connect you to whatever patch of earth you hold dear. It is poignant reminder of the landscapes we’ve forgotten to keep close, of the land that does not belong to us but simply is who we are. The Ranch That Was Us is an affectionate reminder to go outside and touch the earth that is you.

Sky Patterson.

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SAN ANTONIO

Our Story of 150 Years in the Alamo City

BY SAN ANTONIO EXPRESS-NEWS STAFF

SAN ANTONIO EXPRESS-NEWS is ranked as the fourth-largest daily newspaper in Texas and is one of

trinity university press MORE THAN 150 YEARS OF SAN ANTONIO HISTORY On Sept. 27, 1865, the San Antonio Express-News made its debut. And from the beginning, there was plenty to write about. The Civil War had just concluded, and it was only twenty-nine years after the fall of the Alamo. Today, 150 years later, San Antonio is America’s fastest-growing big city and still making history. San Antonio is a richly illustrated compilation of more than 150 years of coverage on the history and culture of the city, as told in the pages of the San Antonio Express-News. This book tracks the city’s past from 1865 until 2015 and is full of evocative pictures and compelling accounts culled from the Express-News archives. The collection celebrates companies that shaped the city, such as Frost Bank, which began extending credit in 1867; the Sisters of Charity of the Incarnate Word, founders in 1869 of what is now the Christus Santa Rosa Health System and subsequently their namesake university; and H-E-B grocery, which has its 110th anniversary this year. This is not a standard civic history or a straightforward march through the decades. Loosely organized by theme, the stories in the collection are often quite often surprising, just like San Antonio itself. As anyone who has spent time in the city knows, this is a place with a soul.

the leading news sources for South Texas, with offices in San Antonio, Austin, Brownsville, Laredo, and NOVEMBER 2015

Mexico City.

HISTORY • TEXAS $39.95 • 528 PAGES • 11.5 X 11.5

CO-PUBLISHED WITH THE SAN ANTONIO EXPRESS-NEWS

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SAN ANTONIO IN COLOR BY W.B. THOMPSON

W.B. THOMPSON lives and works in the Virgin Islands, and maintains a studio in Connecticut. His mixed media paintings and

trinity university press PAINTINGS OF SAN ANTONIO LANDMARKS IN FLAMBOYANT COLOR San Antonio in Color captures the city’s historic sites, including the old Catholic missions, the Paseo del Rio, and the Spanish Governor’s Palace, as well as cultural institutions, such as the McNay Art Museum, the Carver Community Cultural Center, and the San Antonio Public Library. Completing the visual tour are scenes from San Antonio’s neighborhoods, festivals, and popular haunts—a west side ice house, King William’s stately architecture, mariachis, and the annual rodeo. W. B. Thompson’s flamboyant hues and a bold mixed-media style make for a stunning artistic tribute to the city, a place that’s been called one of the most romantic cities in America. Setting off the images are words spoken or written by notable residents (including David Robinson, Red McCombs, Rosemary Catacalos, Claude Stanush, Mary Ann Noonan Guerra, and John Phillip Santos) and observant visitors (including Jack Kerouac, Charles Kuralt, Stephen Crane, Frederick Law Olmsted, and Dwight D. Eisenhower) to describe San Antonio’s past and present, mystique and magic.

sculptural assemblages are in prominent art collections worldwide. San Antonio in Color was awarded a certificate of excellence at the 35th Annual Bookbuilders West Show and was a San Antonio Express-News Best Book of 2004. Thompson graduated from Trinity

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University (B.A. History, 1988) and was a student of Art Professor Bill Bristow.

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SAN ANTONIO UNCOVERED Fun Facts and Hidden Histories

BY MARK LOUIS RYBCZYK

MARK LOUIS RYBCZYK is an award-winning disc

trinity university press QUIRKY AND AMAZING FACTS ABOUT THE ALAMO CITY

San Antonio is one of the fastest growing and most dynamic cities in America. The Alamo City’s charm, colorful surroundings, and diverse culture combine to make it one of the most interesting places in Texas and the nation. In San Antonio Uncovered, Mark Rybczyk examines some of the city’s internationally known legends and lore (including ghost stories) and takes a nostalgic look at landmarks that have disappeared. Introducing the city’s characters and unusual features, Rybczyk debunks local myths and corrects common misconceptions to create a unique portrait of a city on the rise. Rybczyk embraces San Antonio’s peculiarities by chronicling the cross-country journey of the World’s Largest Boots to their home in front of North Star Mall, the origins of the Frito corn chip and chewing gum, the annual Cornyation of King Anchovy, and Dwight Eisenhower’s stint as the football coach at St Mary’s University. Local lore has it that every Texan has two hometowns—their own and San Antonio. San Antonio Uncovered explores the reasons there is so much to love and learn about everyone’s adopted city.

jockey who started his career at KXZL, WOAI, and KJ-97 in San Antonio before moving to 96.3 KSCS in Dallas, where he had the longest-running morning show in the Dallas–Fort Worth area. Rybczyk also penned The Travis Club, a historical thriller based on

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San Antonio lore.

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SAVING SAN ANTONIO The Preservation of a Heritage

BY LEWIS F. FISHER

trinity university press THE COMPELLING STORY OF THE GROUNDBREAKING PRESERVATION OF SAN ANTONIO’S CULTURAL AND ARCHITECTURAL PAST Few American cities enjoy the likes of San Antonio’s visual links with its dramatic past. The Alamo and four other Spanish missions, recently designated a UNESCO World Heritage site, are the most obvious, but there are countless other landmarks and folkways that lend San Antonio an “odd and antiquated foreignness.” Adding to the charm of the nation’s seventh largest city is the San Antonio River, saved to become a winding linear park through downtown and beyond and a world model for sensitive urban development. San Antonio’s heritage has not been preserved by accident. The wrecking balls and headlong development that accompanied progress in the nineteenth century roused an indigenous historic preservation movement—the first effective one west of the Mississippi River.

LEWIS F. FISHER Lewis F. Fisher, founder of Maverick Publishing Company, first encountered the San Antonio River Walk in 1964 as an Air Force officer trainee. He then returned to San Antonio with his wife, Mary, and began working as a reporter for the Express-News. He has since

In Saving San Antonio, Lewis Fisher peels back the myths surrounding more than a century of preservation triumphs and failures to reveal a lively mosaic of San Antonio’s cultural and architectural soul.

published forty-five books on topics ranging from San Antonio’s Spanish heritage to its urban

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development, and from the military to sports, architecture, and multicultural legends. A former

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member of the San Antonio River Commission.

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SPURS NATION

Major Moments in San Antonio Basketball

BY THE STAFF OF THE

SAN ANTONIO EXPRESS-NEWS FOREWORD BY JIM LEFKO

trinity university press THIRTY YEARS OF SAN ANTONIO SPURS HISTORY IN THE MODERN ERA

From the Memorial Day Miracle to coach Gregg Popovich’s legendary leadership to winning five NBA championships, the San Antonio Spurs have brought excitement to the Alamo City and the greater NBA family since 1976. Celebrating the team with the most rabid and loyal fan base in basketball history, Spurs Nation captures the Spurs’ unforgettable plays and crucial junctures from the past thirty years. Spurs Nation is the collectible book, filled with silver and black moments for Spurs fans everywhere. This full-color photography, hardcover edition encompasses favorite past and current players, from George Gervin to Tim Duncan, seen through the eyes and words of the San Antonio Express-News sports photographers and writers who have covered the team’s monumental rise.

JIM LEFKO is the sports editor of the San Antonio Express-News. He was previously the sports editor of the Indianapolis Star, the Lafayette (Ind.) Journal and Courier and the deputy sports editor of the San Antonio Light. A

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University of Texas graduate, Lefko is originally from Kansas City, and lives in San Antonio.

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FROM THE FOREWORD

Any Silver and Black fan knows the significance of the four-digit combinations 1999, 2003, 2005, 2007 and 2014. Those are the title years, the seasons the Spurs overcame New York, New Jersey, Detroit, Cleveland and Miami, respectively, in the NBA Finals. So dominant were the Spurs in those showdowns that only one Finals series — 2005 — went the full seven games. Had it not been for legendary coach Gregg Popovich, there is no guarantee any of the titles would have materialized. Pop, the preacher of relentless team defense, showed the Spurs could win with a variety of offensive styles to complement their suffocating defense. From ‘winning ugly’ to the ‘beautiful game,’ the Spurs became an unstoppable force. The future is bright too, with young star Kawhi Leonard and All-Star freeagent acquisition LaMarcus Aldridge continuing the tradition from the legends who preceded them. The San Antonio Express-News has been there to chronicle every made basket, blocked shot and champagne celebration. Here are the most memorable moments in the Spurs’ modern era as told by the writers who witnessed and chronicled history in the making.

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David Robinson makes his NBA debut against the Los Angeles Lakers

2005

Tony Parker leaves the court as Detroit celebrates its Game 4 victory

“There is no NBA roster more diverse than the Spurs.” – Sports Illustrated

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Manu Ginobili during the Spurs’ victory game over Golden State

WALKING HILL COUNTRY TOWNS: 41 Unique Walks in the Texas Hill Country

BY DIANE CAPITO

trinity university press FORTY-ONE CAREFULLY MAPPED WALKS IN THIRTY-FOUR TEXAS HILL COUNTRY TOWNS

Walking Hill Country Towns is the classic guidebook that takes you deep into the hearts of picturesque towns that dot the Texas Hill Country between San Antonio and Austin, from Bandera to Buda, Kerrville to Kyle, Grapetown to Gruene. For those without enough time to slow down, the author keeps the routes on public streets that can be driven or bicycled. You’ll find precise directions plus the locations of convenient parking, restrooms, and restaurants. The index offers a checklist of cemeteries, courthouses, museums, parks, nature trails, and even, for five towns, eyewitness accounts of ghosts, one of which the author swears she encountered during the preparation of this book. Diane Capito’s carefully mapped walks in twenty-eight Hill Country towns—there are five more towns without walks—take you along familiar main streets and down the unbeaten byways that so often define a town’s soul. A wealth of freshly unearthed historical information brings hundreds of small-town landmarks to life.

DIANE CAPITO grew up taking family walks in her hometown of Kansas City, Missouri. She explored Southern California and Mexico on her own and in walking groups. She ended up in San Antonio, where she is the co-authored San Antonio on Foot

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and organized neighborhood walking tours,

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finding time in between for freelance writing

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for newspapers and magazines.

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architectural legacy of alfred giles MARY CAROLYN HOLLERS GEORGE $60.00 | 176 PAGES | 11 X 11 HARDCOVER: 9781595340191

THE BEST RESTORATIONS OF A FAMED TEXAS ARCHITECT

art at our doorstep NAN CUBA & RILEY ROBINSON $29.95 | 240 PAGES | 8.5 X 10 HARDCOVER: 9781595340399

SHOWCASING SAN ANTONIO’S COMMUNITY OF ARTISTS

on the border: an evironmental history of s.a.

place names of san antonio

CHAR MILLER $19.95 | 304 PAGES | 6 X 9 PAPERBACK: 9781595340146

DAVID P. GREEN $18.85 | 244 PAGES | 5.5 X 8.5 PAPERBACK: 9781595346742

WRITINGS ON S.A.’S cOMPLEX ENVIRONMENTAL HISTORY

1,000 PLACE NAMES IN S.A. INFORM AND DELIGHT

san antonio architecture

transforming san antonio

AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF ARCHITECTURE SAN ANTONIO $24.95 | 320 PAGES | 4.5 X 9 PAPERBACK: 9781595341747

COMPREHENSIVE CATALOG OF ALAMO CITY ARCHITECTURE

NELSON W. WOLFF $24.95 | 264 PAGES | 5.5 X 8.25 PAPERBACK: 9781595340467

THE ECONOMIC REVITALIZATION OF S.A.

fort sam ELDON CAGLE JR. $16.95 | 112 PAGES | 8.5 X 11 PAPERBACK: 9781595347367

A HISTORY OF ONE OF THE ARMY’S OLDEST POSTS

powering a city CATHERINE NIXON COOKE $19.95 | 208 PAGES | 10 X 8.5 PAPERBACK: 9781595348432

THE STORY OF ENERGY AND ITS IMPACT ON SAN ANTONIO

west of the creek DAVID BOWSER $14.95 | 136 PAGES | 5.5 X 8.5 PAPERBACK: 9781595347008

HIDDEN STORIES OF FRONTIER SAN ANTONIO

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baseball in the lone star state TOM KAYSER & DAVID KING $19.95 | 256 PAGES | 6 X 9 PAPERBACK: 9781595340139

ESSENTIAL INFORMATION ON THE TEXAS LEAGUE

classic tex-mex cooking JIM PEYTON $17.95 | 192 PAGES | 6.5 X 8.5 PAPERBACK: 9781595347763

100 RECIPES ON HOW TO COOK TEX-MEX RIGHT

beer across texas PAUL W. HIGHTOWER & TRAVIS E. POLING $12.95 | 80 PAGES | 5.5 X 8.5 PAPERBACK: 9781893271517

SAMPLE THE FLAVORS OF TEXAS’S UNIQUE BREWS

fifty years of the texas observer CHAR MILLER $19.95 | 448 PAGES | 6 X 9 PAPERBACK: 9781595340016

the biker’s guide to texas

DOROTHY WALDMAN $18.95 | 176 PAGES | 5.5 X 8.2 PAPERBACK: 9781893271364

A TWO-WHEELED TOUR ACROSS TEXAS

mary bonner MARY CAROLYN HOLLERS GEORGE $24.95 | 127 PAGES | 9 X 8 PAPERBACK: 9781595348364

THE LIFE OF ONE OF TEXAS’S MOST ICONIC ARTISTS

THE OBSERVER’S BEST WORK TO CELEBRATE FIFTY YEARS

FOR ADDITIONAL TITLES VISIT

photography of the south texas frontier BRUCE M. SHACKELFORD $24.95 | 112 PAGES | 10 X 10 HARDCOVER: 9781595346971

COMPELLING IMAGES OF PEOPLE AND LIFE ON THE FRONTIER

wine roads of texas WES MARSHALL $21.95 | 230 PAGES | 5.5 X 8.5 PAPERBACK: 9781595346841

THE IDEAL GUIDE FOR THE TEXAS WINE CONNOISSEUR

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