Description
Author: Lewis F. Fisher
Publisher: Maverick Books
Published: 01/01/2010
Pages: 112
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.85lbs
Size: 10.90h x 8.40w x 0.30d
ISBN13: 9781595347138
ISBN10: 1595347135
BISAC Categories:
- Religion | Christianity | Catholic | General
- History | United States | State & Local | Southwest (AZ, NM, OK, TX)
- Architecture | Buildings | Religious
About the Author
Celebrated San Antonio historian Lewis F. Fisher, whose Maverick Publishing Company was acquired by Trinity University Press in 2015, has published forty-five books on topics ranging from San Antonio's Spanish heritage to its urban development, and from the military to sports, architecture, and multicultural legends. A former member of the San Antonio River Commission, he has written numerous books himself, including Chili Queens, Hay Wagons, and Fandangos: The Spanish Plazas in Frontier San Antonio, winner of the 2015 San Antonio Conservation Society Publication Award, and Saving San Antonio: The Preservation of a Heritage, republished in a second edition, and Maverick: The American Name That Became a Legend. Fisher has received numerous local, state, and national writing awards and was named a Texas Preservation Hero by the Conservation Society in 2014.