Building San Antonio

During the fifty year period beginning in 1718 and ending around 1768, Spanish friars and Native American converts moved nearly 1 million metric tons of limestone around the San Antonio River valley and erected the UNESCO World Heritage San Antonio Missions, using only crude hand tools and native ingenuity.Selected BibliographyAlessio Robles, Vito. Coahuila y Texas en la época colonial (1978).De La Teja, Jesús F., ed. A Revolution Remembered: The Memoirs and Selected Correspondence of Juan N. Seguín (2002).De la Teja, Jesús F. San Antonio de Béxar: A Community on New Spain's Northern Frontier (1996).De Zavala, Lorenzo. Journey to the United States of North America: Viaje a los Estados Unidos del Norte de América. Michael Woolsey, trans., and John-Michael Rivera ed. (2005).Fisher, Lewis F. Saving San Antonio: The Preservation of a Heritage (2016).Maverick, Mary A. Memoirs of Mary A. Maverick (2007).McDonald, David R. José Antonio Navarro: In Search of the American Dream in Nineteenth-Century Texas (2013).Poyo, Gerald Eugene, and Gilberto M. Hinojosa, eds.  Tejano Origins in Eighteenth-Century San Antonio (1995).Ramos, Raúl A. Beyond the Alamo: Forging Mexican Ethnicity in San Antonio, 1821-1861 (2010).Texas State Historical Association. The Handbook of Texas Online.Tijerina, Andrés. Tejanos and Texas under the Mexican Flag, 1821-1836 (1994).www.BrandonSeale.com