Mission de las Cabras: The San Antonio River Ranching Frontier

Long before Wilson County existed, this stretch of the San Antonio River was Spanish and Tejano ranching country. This driving tour visits Rancho de las Cabras, a fortified 1731 outpost of Mission Espada where mission cattle grazed and Indigenous herdsmen worshipped; the graves of the Canary Island colonists who founded San Fernando, the seed of San Antonio itself; and the ranching legacy of the Flores de Abrego family, whose 1867 land donation became the townsite of Floresville. It ends at the home of Erasmo Seguín, the man who personally welcomed Stephen F. Austin into Texas in 1821 — a quiet finish to a tour about the deep roots beneath the county's peanut fields.