San Antonio, Texas
- A map out of San Antonio, Texas (also known as Bexar in Blood Meridian) would be intriguing as we could almost differentiate between where the average citizen/traveler would go (the city itself) and where the criminals and cowboys would go (the caves and other caverns on the outskirts of the city). On top of that, I am curious to see how much of the culture and history of San Antonio is still present compared to what the city was like during the wild west time period in America.
- Quote: “He came upon Bexar in the evening of the fourth day and he sat the tattered mule on a low rise and looked down at the town, the quiet adobe houses, the line of green oaks and cottonwoods that marked the course of the river, the plaza filled with wagons with their osnaburg covers and the whitewashed public buildings and the Moorish churchdome rising from the trees and the garrison and the tall stone powderhouse in the distance. A light breeze stirred the fronds of his hat, his matted greasy hair. His eyes lay dark and tunneled in a caved and haunted face and a foul stench rose from the wells of his boot tops. The sun was just down and to the west lay reefs of bloodred clouds up out of which rose little desert nighthawks like fugitives from some great fire at the earth’s end... He went down a narrow sandy road and as he went he met a deadcart bound out with a load of corpses, a small bell tolling the way and a lantern swinging from the gate. Three men sat on the box not unlike the dead themselves or spirit folk so white they were with lime and nearly phosphorescent in the dusk.” (pp. 22-23). Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group. Kindle Edition.
Coordinates
Latitude: 29.424121900000
Longitude: -98.493628200000
Longitude: -98.493628200000