| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 37.1

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| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 37.1 | The History Cooperative

*Blessed with Tourists: The Borderlands of Religion and Tourism in San Antonio*. By Thomas S. Bremer. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2004. xii + 207 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $55.00, cloth; $19.95, paper.)
Thomas Bremer's Blessed with Tourists considers the historical implications of sites that have both religious significance and tourist interest. Using San Antonio's missions as a case study, Bremer argues that a common preoccupation with these spaces intertwined the interests of religious adherents and tourists from the late-nineteenth century to current times. The resulting tensions, Bremer argues, created a "simultaneity of places" (p. 4). Tourists and religious adherents, in other words, ascribed competing meanings to San Antonio's missions, though both groups were visiting the same sites.	1
Bremer's smart narrative introduces a number of eccentric individuals who put their stamp on the missions. Most nineteenth- and twentieth-century preservationists wanted to cast the missions as part of Texan/American history, which they presumed to be Anglo and Protestant. Obviously, Mission San Antonio de Valero, best known as the Alamo, became the most popular tourist attraction in San Antonio. Preservationists and city leaders ultimately obscured the Alamo's Catholic history as they made it into a symbol of Texan and U. S. patriotism.	. . .

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