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Former Home of LBJs'
Grandparents
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Central Texas stretches
from the prairies of the
northeast through the green
and fertile Hill Country
into the chalky limestone
landscape of the west, and
includes two of Texas's most
pleasant cities: San Antonio
and Austin. Austin in
particular, the capital city
and home to the progressive
University of Texas, helps
to give the region an
intellectual and political
feel uncharacteristic of the
rest of the state.
Agriculture has been the
mainstay of the economy here
ever since the resis-tant
Comanche population was
finally packed off to
reservations in the 1840s.
The slave-driven cotton
plantations of the south and
east have gone, but the
small communities set up by
Polish, Czech, Norwegian and
Swedish immigrants in the
Hill Country maintained,
even until very recently,
the traditions, architecture
and languages of their
homelands. Great cattle
drives came trampling
through after the Civil War
and played a large part in
the development of San
Antonio.
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