The mission at Alamo was founded in 1718 as the first mission in San Antonio and one of the oldest Spanish missions in Texas. It was established, among other reasons, to educate the Native Americans who were being Christianized. After several decades, in 1793, it was secularized and abandoned. Over the years, it primarily served…
An innumerable number of books and articles have been written about them, and many films have been made. They are an inseparable part of American culture and the myth of the Wild West. They participated in the capture of Bonnie and Clyde, prevented assassinations of two U.S. presidents, and today they deal with the most…
Todd Anderwald, despite his German-sounding surname, belongs to one of the sixteen Polish families that settled in Bandera in the mid-19th century. He is already of retirement age and looks just like a doppelganger of Santa Claus—an open, friendly, jovial man with a long white beard. On a daily basis, he works laying bricks,…