Sid Balman Jr., a Pulitzer-nominated national security correspondent, has covered wars in the Persian Gulf, Somalia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, and Kosovo, and has traveled extensively with two American presidents and four secretaries of state on overseas diplomatic missions.
David L. Peché, a San Antonio native, has been collecting and researching San Antonio hotel history since 2006. Images for this book have been sourced from an array of collectors, hotel staff albums, business archives, local library repositories, and university collections.
Jeanie Sanders is a poet, collage artist, and teacher who was born in West Texas and graduated from Sul Ross State University. She lives in Lytle, Texas with her Italian Greyhound and artist husband. She is the author of Book of the Dead, poems and photographs.
Susan Schulten is professor of history at the University of Denver. She is the author of Mapping the Nation: History and Cartography in Nineteenth-Century America and The Geographical Imagination in America, 1880-1950, both published by the University of Chicago Press.
Linda Robinson is an engineer and writer. She recently started her journey to write books that provide awareness, excitement, and entertainment. Her goal is to change the world through words.
San Antonio native Tom Walker attended the University of Texas at Austin. In the sixties, he moved to Manhattan and worked as an editor for Prentice Hall Publishers. In the seventies, he edited and contributed to SA: The Magazine of San Antonio before becoming editor of Southwest Airlines Magazine and Continental Airlines Magazine. This is his fourth book.
