From a Comecrudo dancing song / Bryce Milligan -- Historical writing: Naming San Antonio / Frank W. Jennings -- The wrong side of the river: from old Villita / Maury Maverick Sr. -- An unexpected fiesta / Zebulon Pike -- The fall of the Alamo / Andrea Castanon Villanueva (Madam Candelaria) -- After the Alamo ... San Antonio, 1836-1842 / Antonio Menchaca -- from A life crossing borders / Santiago Tafolla -- from A journey through Texas / Frederick Law Olmsted -- San Antonio de Bexar: an historical sketch / Sidney Lanier -- The yellow rose of Texas: decision at the Alamo / Steven G. Kellman. Journalism & political essays: The Mexican question in the Southwest / Emma Tenayuca -- Letter from San Antonio: No retreat! No surrender! / Jan Jarboe Russell -- The meaning of Chicano / Ricardo Sanchez -- Bridging cultures / Cary Clack. Poetry: Arise, Chicano! / Angela De Hoyos -- Hermano -- How to eat crow on a cold sunday morning -- A lesson in semantics -- This river here / Carmen Tafolla -- El mercado / farmers' market -- San Antonio is a young Yanaguana woman -- Right in one language -- Como embrujada / Evangelina Vigil -- Was fun running 'round descalza -- Por la calle Zarzamora -- Will you hold my bullet, please? / Naomi Shihab Nye -- West side -- The rider -- Because of libraries we can say these things -- Frankly -- Secret missions / Robert Bonazzi -- Once in a blue moon -- Intermezzi -- Eos and the train horns / Bryce Milligan -- San Antonio nights -- Trusting steel -- Homesteaders (in the introduction) / Rosemary Catacalos -- La casa -- Learning endurance from Lupe at the J & A Ice House -- Swallow wings -- Listen, querido, they're playing our song, or, Summer ritual with a poet friend -- High sky / Wendy Barker -- Inheritance -- Trash -- A mother's October / Mariana Aitches -- Winter solstice -- Fishing for light / Deborah Paredez -- Crape myrtle, 1943 -- St. Joske's -- Bustillo drive grocery -- Poem for the King William dancers -- Earl Abel's / Jim LaVilla-Havelin -- In the courtyard -- From some trees -- Cicadas / Carol Coffee Reposa -- Great horned owl -- Alamo Plaza at night -- Bar America / Jacinto Jesus Cardona -- Chicharras -- Pan dulce -- Avocado Avenue -- To chucho would have you believe / Celeste Guzman Mendoza -- About faith -- Crooked pinky -- Girl strolls down Nogalitos Street / Amalia Ortiz -- These hands which have never picked cotton -- The night Ram died -- Sundays after breakfast: a lesson in cotton picking / Laurie Ann Guerrero -- Esperanza tells her friends the story of La Llorona -- Sundays after breakfast: a lesson in speech -- The man who gives bad directions in downtown San Antonio / Jenny Browne -- There's a slow green river I've been living by. Drama -- Driving wheel / Sterling Houston -- Fiction: from Ambrosia de Letinez, or The first Texian novel / Anthony Ganilh -- The enchanted kiss / O. Henry -- Postcript: O. Henry and the bridge at the heart of the city / Bryce Milligan -- Saint's day / Josephina Niggli -- A jury of his peers / Jay Brandon -- From Remember Ben Clayton / Stephen Harrigan -- Loteria: la rosa / Mary Guerrero Milligan -- from Wanderer springs / Robert Flynn -- Patriotism / Nan Cuba -- I explain myself / Geoff Rips -- from The truth -- La chola / Norma E. Cantu -- from Big Red tequila / Rick Riordan -- Live and let live / Claude Stanush -- Bien pretty / Sandra Cisneros.
Summary:
"An anthology of literature from and about San Antonio, Texas, from its early days to the present, including poetry, fiction, journalism, history, political writings, and drama"--Provided by publisher.
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.