San Antonio Legacy
Folklore and Legends of a Diverse People
Donald E. Everett (author), José Cisneros (illustrations)
Colorful tales of San Antonio’s most memorable characters
Frontier San Antonio attracted a great many short-tempered miscreants and adventurers. It also drew missionary priests, conservative merchants, and proper ladies, who established a polite society amid all the commotion.
San Antonio Legacy offers their stories, some factual and some less so, often in their own words, from disorder in the Bull’s Head Saloon to hiding silver on wagons to Mexico to the lynching of Bob Augustine in front of the Bishop’s house. Each story is illustrated with a drawing by Texas artist José Cisneros.
Donald E. Everett (1920–2004) was a professor of history at Trinity University, where he chaired the history department from 1967 to 1981. A native of Auburn, Alabama, he graduated from the University of Florida and completed his master’s and doctoral degrees at Tulane University.
José Cisneros’s (1910–2009) drawings have appeared in more than fifty books, among them Riders across the Centuries, Faces of the Borderlands, and Francis Fugate’s The Spanish Heritage of the Southwest. He is the subject of John O. West’s José Cisneros: An Artist’s Journey. In 2002 President Bush, who collected Cisneros’s work, awarded him the National Humanities Medal.
