Books written by Lewis F. Fisher
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Saving San Antonio: The Preservation of a Heritage
... San Antonio ExpressNews, July 24, 1980; Dick Merkel, “Legislators move to transfer mission park tide,” San Antonio ExpressNews, Feb. 28, 1981; Tom Nelson, “Missions Park plans in danger,” San Antonio ExpressNews, Feb. 24, 1982, 1.
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Saving San Antonio: The Precarious Preservation of a Heritage
Examines the history of preservation attempts in San Antonio, Texas, over the course of more than a century, and includes a chronology and bibliography.
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American Venice: The Epic Story of San Antonio's River
In American Venice: The Epic Story of San Antonio’s River, Lewis F. Fisher uncovers the evolution of San Antonio’s beloved River Walk.
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Maverick: The American Name That Became a Legend
e Maverick, an artists' colony at Woodstock in New York's Catskill Mountains, got this rustic theater, still in use, in . picked up by Rudyard Kipling in his 1891 story collection Life's Handicap. Kipling titled one chapter“The ...
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Chili Queens, Hay Wagons and Fandangos: The Spanish Plazas in Frontier San Antonio
This coffee table book uses more than one hundred rarely seen images to bring to life the frontier era of one of America's most unusual cities, seen through its Spanish plazas.
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Maverick: The American Name that Became a Legend
A cultural exploration of the iconic word and the family who made it legend
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Greetings from San Antonio: Historic Postcards of the Alamo City
Greetings from San Antonio: Historic Postcards of the Alamo City is a collection of more than six hundred color and black-and-white photo postcards, many of them quite rare, that yield a compelling visual narrative of the city in the early ...
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River Walk: The Epic Story of San Antonio's River
River Walk untangles the story of the evolution of San Antonio's River. It is a visual tour de force as well. Of the 230 illustrations, many in color, dozens are...
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San Antonio's Spanish Missions: A Portrait
More than 100 photographs of San Antonio's UNESCO World Heritage Site
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Brackenridge Park: San Antonio’s Acclaimed Urban Park
Extensively researched and illustrated with some two hundred archival photographs and vintage postcards, Brackenridge: San Antonio’s Acclaimed Urban Park is the first comprehensive look at the fascinating story of this unique park and how ...
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Alamo to Espada: A Vintage Postcard Profile of San Antonio's Spanish Missions
A visual snapshot of the restoration of San Antonio's historic missions
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Chili Queens, Hay Wagons and Fandangos: The Spanish Plazas in Frontier San Antonio
Snapshots of a more colorful time in San Antonio history
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The Spanish Missions of San Antonio
This concise and lavishly illustrated account balances the significant history of the San Antonio's missions' founding and their original function with the stories of their subsequent decay and eventual restoration.
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San Antonio's Historic Plazas, Parks and River Walk: In Vintage Postcard Images
Vintage postcard portrait panoramas of San Antonio that illustrate a city's transition into modern times
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C. H Guenther & Son at 150 Years: The Legacy of a Texas Milling Pioneer
Lavishly illustrated human story of a epic Texas corporation
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Eyes Right!: A Vintage Postcard Profile of San Antonio's Military
More than 200 vintage postcards depicting San Antonio's military
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No Cause of Offence: A Virginia Family of Union Loyalists Confronts the Civil War
One family's incredible Civil War story