San Antonio: The Story Of An Enchanted City and similar items

6" x 9", 367 page hardcover with dustjacket titled SAN ANTONIO: THE STORY OF AN ENCHANTED CITY by Frank W. Jennings/ San Antonio Express-News, ISBN # 1-890346-02-0, Stated 1st Edition with 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 number line, copyright 1998/ Chronicles the history of San Antonio and profiles the people and cultures that influenced its development, including the American Indians, Hispanics, Germans, and Anglo Americans. From the Preface of this 367 page book: "The story of San Antonio is the story of a unique mixture of people - American Indians, Hispanics, Germans, Anglo Americans and others - who have lived together in Texas for more than a century and a half around four plazas, and who carried on commerce, freighting, agriculture, cattle-raising, petroleum production, military training, and scientific research. Here in South Central Texas they thrived at the edge of the rolling green slopes of the Hill Country by the verdant banks of three life-giving streams. The town's ten years as the oldest and largest community in one of the world's independent republics - left a permanent mark on San Antonians as it did on all Texans. Together, they've shared 'the Texas experience'. The dean of Texas historians, T.R. Fehrenbach, has described this experience. He says: 'What other part of the United States, starting as twenty-three rural counties, fought a foreign power to a standstill, won de facto independence on the battlefield, established a republic that was recognized by Britain, France, Holland, Belgium and the United States and put its Lone Star flag on the high seas? All by its lonesome' That unparalleled experience imprinted every Texan with a distinct pride and self-satisfaction in being a living part of the Lone Star state. To learn what happened in San Antonio under Spain and later Mexico, to examine the reasons for that profound Texas act at the Alamo - to see how life was lived among the town's amazing variety of immigrants before and after the Civil War, and before the first passenger train arrived in 1877 - is to learn a great deal about the history of all Texas. San Antonio's people have preserved the traditions of both the non-Hispanics and the descendants of Spaniards and Mexicans. Visitors marvel at the city's Hispanicity, while they revel in the joyful presence of the 'Old West' customs formed in its years on the Chisholm Trail and its venerable ranching traditions." The book is complete and in EXCELLENT condition with some overall light wear mainly to the dustjacket.