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On the Perimeter: The Autobiography of Hazel Kolb Motorcyclin' Gran'ma

Hazel Kolb

Bill Stermer

Maverick Publishing Company

Victor, New York, a prime target of the rapid expansion of suburban Rochester, is the fastest-growing township in Ontario County. It is also home of the state's only park devoted to the American Indian, on the site of Ganondagan, a Seneca village burned by a French army in 1687. Now in its third printing, this lavishly-illustrated book by a trained journalist portrays the forces which shaped and still shape the town, with the aid of 159 photographs plus charts, maps, chronology, extensive notes and an index.  In this book, Victor's history is broken into seven periods: its geologic past, Indian inhabitants (10,000 BC to 1788), arrival of New England settlers (1788-1812), initial development (1812-1865), the flourishing Victorian era (1865-1913), Depression years and recovery (1913-1946) and suburban growth, inevitable since Governor Thomas E. Dewey broke ground in Victor for the western section of the New York State Thruway in 1946. The area around the Victor interchange is now ! a center for high tech industry as carefully-planned residential development draws the town's population toward 8,000.

Victor (New York): The History of a Town

History

Lewis F. Fisher

Americas

San Antonio: Outpost of Empires

San Antonio's unique appeal is the pervasive ambience of a colorful, authentic past. Here real heroes lived and died. Here immigrants of all stripes labored to build a city--the nation's ninth-largest--that on one hand stands tall and gleaming, yet on the other seems little changed from the 1920s, or from Victorian times, or from the reign of Spanish kings. 
San Antonio: Outpost of Empires is a vivid, honest portrait in words and pictures of San Antonio's evolution over the course of nearly three centuries, from the days of the colonists of New Spain to the defense of the Alamo to the inrush of a "jumble of races" to the rapid growth of the modern era. 
Here the faces of persons like Davy Crockett, Robert E. Lee, Theodore Roosevelt, Geronimo and Queen Elizabeth II mingle with those of Spanish missionaries, female aviators, traildrivers, chili vendors, firemen and birdsellers as San Antonio: Outpost of Empires documents a remarkable city's march through time. 
The text is enhanced by 140 dramatically-displayed illustrations.

This is a concisely written, lavishly illustrated account of the founding, growth, decline and restoration of San Antonio's five Spanish colonial missions, a national treasure. Built by Franciscan friars and their Native American charges on the far frontier of New Spain, they stand today as the largest cluster of Spanish missions in the United States. One is preserved as the Alamo. The others form San Antonio Missions National Historical Park.

The Spanish Missions of San Antonio

More than the historical profile of one city, this well-illustrated book documents the successful struggle of a new suburb through a bitter incorporation war with the adjacent metropolis and then its survival through the use of revenue from traffic fines, a strategy told, uniquely, from the suburb's point of view. Also analyzed is the growth of Balcones Heights as one of the most densely populated cities in Texas and the bonanza of sales tax revenues which brought not only municipal affluence but also the problems and challenges of cities many times its size.

Balcones Heights: A Crossroads of San Antonio

One evening Mason Matthews got a phone call. Just as a singer at San Antonio's Alameda Theater was about to mount a horse backstage and ride out in front of the audience, her horse fell through the floor. Would Dr. Matthews come figure out what to do? This was only one of the dilemmas that faced the veterinarian during his nearly half-century career. Texas ranchers had emergencies as they began to stock African animals. A group of nuns running a farm needed to get their goats out of the pig feed. An exotic dancer needed her cobra defanged. In this book, illustrated by Lyn Belisle, Dr. Matthews shares his favorite vignettes from a lifetime of working with animals.

The Horse That Fell Through the Stage, and Other Tales of a Texas Veterinarian

Engineering & Transportation

Mason L. Matthews

Engineering

San Antonio's is an unlikely legacy. The frontier city's remoteness attracted miscreants and adventurers of all kinds, too many of them with short tempers and quick trigger fingers. Yet frontier San Antonio also drew--from a dozen diverse cultures--missionary priests, conservative merchants and proper ladies, who established a polite society amidst all the commotion. The mix also gave rise to the stories, some true, others not so, in San Antonio Legacy: of disorder in the Bull's Head Saloon, of hiding silver on wagon trains to the Mexican border, and why Bob Augustine was lynched in front of the Bishop's house. Then there are tales of San Antonio as the mother-in-law of the Army, of a society matron's drive to save the Texas bluebonnets, of unrequited love at the Alamo. All are told in the words of those who watched these things or participated or who talked with those who did--or who just made them up for the entertainment of those who would come later. The stories are illustrated by 22 drawings by Jos Cisneros.

San Antonio Legacy: Folklore and Legends of a Diverse People

Politics & Social Sciences

Donald E. Everett

Social Sciences

San Antonio's is an unlikely legacy. The frontier city's remoteness attracted miscreants and adventurers of all kinds, too many of them with short tempers and quick trigger fingers. Yet frontier San Antonio also drew--from a dozen diverse cultures--missionary priests, conservative merchants and proper ladies, who established a polite society amidst all the commotion. The mix also gave rise to the stories, some true, others not so, in San Antonio Legacy: of disorder in the Bull's Head Saloon, of hiding silver on wagon trains to the Mexican border, and why Bob Augustine was lynched in front of the Bishop's house. Then there are tales of San Antonio as the mother-in-law of the Army, of a society matron's drive to save the Texas bluebonnets, of unrequited love at the Alamo. All are told in the words of those who watched these things or participated or who talked with those who did--or who just made them up for the entertainment of those who would come later. All 22 stories are illustrated by drawings by Jos Cisneros.

San Antonio (Texas) Legacy : Folklore and Legends of a Diverse People

San Antonio-based C. H. Guenther & Son, founded by a young German immigrant in 1851, is the oldest family-owned business in Texas and the oldest continually-operated family-owned milling company in the United States. Evolution from waterwheels to computers and from plain flour to mixes and frozen foods form the backdrop to this lavishly illustrated human story of a company whose Pioneer and White Wings brands approach nationwide distribution.

C. H. Guenther & Son at 150 Years : The Legacy of a Texas Milling Pioneer

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On the Perimeter: The Autobiography of Hazel Kolb Motorcyclin' Gran'ma

Victor (New York): The History of a Town

San Antonio: Outpost of Empires

San Antonio: Outpost of Empires

The Spanish Missions of San Antonio

Balcones Heights: A Crossroads of San Antonio

The Horse That Fell Through the Stage, and Other Tales of a Texas Veterinarian

San Antonio Legacy: Folklore and Legends of a Diverse People

San Antonio (Texas) Legacy : Folklore and Legends of a Diverse People

C. H. Guenther & Son at 150 Years : The Legacy of a Texas Milling Pioneer