Brackenridge - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Brackenridge write by Lewis F. Fisher. This book was released on 2022-10-18. Brackenridge available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Brackenridge Park began its life as a heavily wooded, bucolic driving park at the turn of the twentieth century. Over the next 120 years it evolved into the sprawling, multifaceted jewel San Antonians enjoy today, home to the San Antonio Zoo, the state’s first public golf course, the Japanese Tea Garden, the Sunken Garden Theater, and the Witte Museum. The land that Brackenridge Park occupies, near the San Antonio River headwaters, has been reinvented many times over. People have gathered there since prehistoric times. Following the city’s founding in 1718, the land was used to channel river water into town via a system of acequias; its limestone cliffs were quarried for building materials; and it was the site of a Civil War tannery, headquarters for two military camps, a plant nursery, and a racetrack. The park continues to be a site of national acclaim even while major sections have fallen into disrepair. The more than 400 acres that constitute San Antonio’s flagship urban park are made up of half a dozen parcels stitched together over time to create an uncommon varied landscape. Uniquely San Antonian, Brackenridge is full of romantic wooded walks and whimsical public spaces drawing tourists, locals, wildlife, and waterfowl. Extensively researched and illustrated with some two hundred archival photographs and vintage postcards, Brackenridge: San Antonio’s Acclaimed Urban Park is the first comprehensive look at the fascinating story of this unique park and how its diverse layers evolved to create one of the city’s foremost gathering places.
George W. Brackenridge
George W. Brackenridge - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook George W. Brackenridge write by Marilyn Mcadams Sibley. This book was released on 2013-12-06. George W. Brackenridge available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. George W. Brackenridge (1832–1920) was a paradox to his fellow Texans. A Republican in a solidly Democratic state, a financier in a cattleman's country, a Prohibitionist in the goodtime town of San Antonio, he devoted his energies to making a fortune only to give it to philanthropic causes. Indiana born, Brackenridge came to Texas in 1853, but left the state during the Civil War to serve as U.S. Treasury agent and engage in the wartime cotton trade. Later he settled in San Antonio, where he founded a bank and invested in railroads, utilities, and other enterprises. Some of Brackenridge's contemporaries never forgave him for his Civil War career, but others knew him as a public-spirited citizen, educator, and advocate of civil rights. He cared little for what others thought of him. Yet, he confided once in a rare interview that his fondest ambition was to leave the world a better place for his having lived in it. To this end, he gave generously of himself and his means. His best-known benefaction is Brackenridge Park, which he gave to the city of San Antonio, but most of his contributions were in the field of education. As regent of the University of Texas for more than twenty-five years, he gave the institution its first dormitory, a large tract of land in Austin, and innumerable smaller gifts. He also offered to underwrite the expenses of the University when Governor James E. Ferguson vetoed the appropriation bill for 1917–1919. Other educational institutions to benefit from his largess were the public schools of San Antonio, a Negro college in Seguin, and the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston. In addition, he assisted individual students, especially women, through scholarships and loans. Believing that the betterment of humanity lay in education, Brackenridge arranged for the continuation of his philanthropies. By his will he created the George W. Brackenridge Foundation, the first of its kind in Texas and one of the first in the United States. Marilyn McAdams Sibley's study of George W. Brackenridge is the first biography of an important and, for his time, unusual Texan. It presents new material concerning the Mexican cotton trade during the Civil War, on the beginnings of banking in Texas, and on higher education in Texas.
A Hugh Henry Brackenridge Reader, 1770-1815
A Hugh Henry Brackenridge Reader, 1770-1815 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Hugh Henry Brackenridge Reader, 1770-1815 write by Daniel Marder. This book was released on 2010-11-23. A Hugh Henry Brackenridge Reader, 1770-1815 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A collection of the work of Hugh Henry Brackenridge (1748-1816)-one of the most vigorous and prolific writers of his time. An ardent believer in an educated public, his efforts to implant the ideals of democracy in early America made him a legend on the frontier. This selection of his work captures the essence of the man and his time, and includes writing published in the United States Magazine, Pittsburgh Gazette, as well as his narrative on the Whiskey Rebellion, Incidents of the Insurrection.
Early Western Travels, 1748-1846: Brackenridge's Journal up the Missouri, 1811 ; Franchère's Voyage to Northwest coast, 1811-1814
Early Western Travels, 1748-1846: Brackenridge's Journal up the Missouri, 1811 ; Franchère's Voyage to Northwest coast, 1811-1814 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Early Western Travels, 1748-1846: Brackenridge's Journal up the Missouri, 1811 ; Franchère's Voyage to Northwest coast, 1811-1814 write by Reuben Gold Thwaites. This book was released on 1904. Early Western Travels, 1748-1846: Brackenridge's Journal up the Missouri, 1811 ; Franchère's Voyage to Northwest coast, 1811-1814 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Modern Chivalry
Modern Chivalry - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Modern Chivalry write by Hugh Henry Brackenridge. This book was released on 2009-09-01. Modern Chivalry available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. It was only after serving as a chaplain in the American Revolution, playing an important role in the Whiskey Rebellion, and serving (often controversially) on the Pennsylvania Supreme Court, that Hugh Henry Brackenridge composed his great comic epic. Published in installments over the twenty-eight–year period beginning with Washington's presidency ending with that of Madison, this irreverent and ribald novel, relating the misadventures of Captain Farrago and his sidekick, Teague O'Regan, leaves no major ethnic, racial, religious, or political issue of the period unscathed.
