America’s National Parks Podcast
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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.
The 5 Senses of Death Valley
National Park News | Cave Waves, False Alarm Volcano, and More
Plains
Glacier Bay - Fisheries and Canneries
National Geographic’s ”America’s National Parks”: Interview With the Creators
The Year Of Water In America’s National Parks | National Park News
National Park Trip Planning with Jennifer Melroy of National Park Obsessed
Hampton - Enslavement and Manumission
National Park News | Access To Tallest Tree Blocked, Mobsters In The Bottom of Lake Mead
This Contested Land with McKenzie Long
The Failed Gold Rush
Restoring Yellowstone
News From the Parks | Yellowstone National Park is CLOSED, Plastic Sales Banned in Parks & More
Grand Register of the Yo-Semite Valley
Teddy Roosevelt’s Namesakes: One Man, Many Parks
Marsh Billings Rockefeller: Conservation on a Grand Scale
News FromThe Parks | ”Fee Free”Smokies to End, Rabbit Disease, Bird Migration & More
Betty Reid Soskin
Behind The Scene’s of Netflix’s ”Our Great National Parks”
The Women of Lowell
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