San Antonio, City for a King: An Account of the Colonial History of San Antonio and Texas (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781490715605)

San Antonio, City for a King takes us on an extraordinary adventure through an amazingly unknown, yet expectantly fitting, piece of Texas' origins. We learn how 16 families from Iberia's Canary Islands answered their monarch's call to populate a desolate northeast area of his New Spain for a strategic political reason. There was the year-long journey: crossing the Atlantic and then trekking north over present-day Mexico to Bejar. We see how these people initiated the township of San Fernando, guided its growth for generations and helped form many Texas traditions. And we follow their descendants through the town's evolution, through two rebellions, three changes of patriotism and one name change...to San Antonio.

Author: Rudy Felix Casanova
ISBN-10: 1490715606
ISBN-13: 9781490715605
Publisher: Trafford Publishing
Language: English
Published: 10/04/2013
Pages: 80
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.21lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.19d

Review Citation(s):
BlueInk Review 12/29/2013