Chili Queens, Hay Wagons and Fandangos: The Spanish Plazas in Frontier San Antonio
- ISBN-10
- 1893271633
- ISBN-13
- 9781893271630
- Category
- History
- Pages
- 103
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2013
- Publisher
- Maverick Books
- Author
- Lewis F. Fisher
Description
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. Colorful iconic paintings and drawings mix with nineteenth century photographic stereoviews and cabinet cards, cropped for impact and appearing with their original subtle tonings.As frontier times were ending in the 1870s and 1880s, San Antonio's Military Plaza by day was a vivid outdoor market. By night it was a crowded dining venue where storied chili queens dished out spicy meals while saloons and fandango halls pulsed nearby. In Main Plaza, Apache chieftains and Spaniards more than a century earlier buried a hatchet, a lance, six arrows and a horse in the center of the plaza to signify peace. On Alamo Plaza, a demonstration of how barbed wire constrained a herd of cattle changed the course of the American West.San Antonio was founded in 1718 on the remote northern frontier of New Spain. Not long after a railroad—in 1877—at last provided easy access to the rest of the nation, rapid growth made San Antonio and its plazas begin looking more like cities elsewhere. Chili Queens, Hay Wagons and Fandangos allows us to picture the earlier, more colorful time. Illustrations are accompanied by descriptive captions and a concise narrative.
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- 2010
- 112 pages
- Paperback
- Maverick Books
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