America’s National Parks Podcast
Society & Culture:Places & Travel
The Alamo is certainly San Antonio’s most famous landmark, perhaps even the most famous building in Texas, because of its pivotal role in the 1836 Texas Revolution. But the Alamo was built over a century prior as Mission San Antonio de Valero, by Spanish settlers on the banks of the San Antonio River. Beginning in 1690, Spanish friars established missions in what is now East Texas as a buffer against the threat of French incursion into Spanish territory from Louisiana. The Alamo is a Texas state historic site, but nearby, four sister missions, all still working Catholic churches, are protected by the National Park Service as the San Antonio Missions National Historical Park.
This episode follows four people connected to the Missions: a stonemason, a historian, a descendant, and a former church administrator. Their stories comprise Michael Nye's "Four Voices" exhibit on display at Mission Concepción.
Marconi
Second Century Camping
A Tale of Two Roads
New NPS Units, Bears, Rescues, and Fires | National Park News
Leave No Trace (or...How to Poop in the Woods)
The Million Dollar Room
Wolverines, an Overturned Tanker, and a $500,000 Fine | National Park News
Parks During a Pandemic
90 Years in the West
News From the Parks: New NPS Funding, Strange Blue Squares at Zion, Cuyahoga Dams Removed
The Complexities of Climate Change
Pullman
Sand Creek
News from the Parks | Big Bend Closes, Yosemite Cancels Reservations
Hey Bear!
The Green Table
The Great American Outdoors Act
The Nine
News from the Parks | National Parks Adjust to a New Normal
The Life of a Canine Ranger
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