An old priest stood beside a creek in the brush country and took legal possession of a piece of ground. There was no church on it. No wall, no bell, no plaza, no stone. A diary kept by another friar that same week records only that he was building a hut.
That is how the Alamo started.
The man was Fray Antonio de San Buenaventura y Olivares, described by the Handbook of Texas as an aging and often cantankerous priest who had spent many years as a missionary in Zacatecas. He had come north with the missionary college at Queretaro, helped found a mission called San Francisco Solano near the Rio Grande in 1700, and then watched it limp from site to site for eighteen years without ever taking hold. What he did in Texas was not really a founding at all. He left the Rio Grande on the eighteenth of April, 1718, with a lay brother named Pedro Maleta, a handful of Indians, and the property that had belonged to San Francisco Solano loaded up behind him, and he carried that failed mission to better ...

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