C. H Guenther & Son at 150 Years: The Legacy of a Texas Milling Pioneer
Publishing Details
C. H Guenther & Son at 150 Years: The Legacy of a Texas Milling Pioneer
By (Author) Lewis F. Fisher
Trinity University Press,U.S.
Trinity University Press,U.S.
21st January 2010
United States
Classifications
General
Non Fiction
History of specific companies / corporate history
Food and beverage technology
338.4766472009764
Physical Properties
120
Width 216mm, Height 280mm
738g
Description
Changes in milling from the days of water power are described in the course of this lavishly illustrated story of the evolution of a small mill on the San Antonio River into the oldest family-owned business in Texas and the oldest continually operating family-owned milling company in the nation.
Author Bio
Celebrated San Antonio historian Lewis F. Fisher, whose Maverick Publishing Company was acquired by Trinity University Press in 2015, has published forty-five books on topics ranging from San Antonio's Spanish heritage to its urban development, and from the military to sports, architecture, and multicultural legends. A former member of the San Antonio River Commission, he has written numerous books himself, including Chili Queens, Hay Wagons, and Fandangos: The Spanish Plazas in Frontier San Antonio, winner of the 2015 San Antonio Conservation Society Publication Award, and Saving San Antonio: The Preservation of a Heritage, republished in a second edition, and Maverick: The American Name That Became a Legend. Fisher has received numerous local, state, and national writing awards and was named a Texas Preservation Hero by the Conservation Society in 2014.
