Prelude To Innovations in Motion: The First Man of San Antonia

I would suggest first reading The Crazy Cowboy of San Antonia first before reading this.

The first man of San Antonia, California was a man whose family was from Kansas, Alabama. Back in 1794, Mr.Henry Carver wanted to travel West and see what else was out there. Mr.Carver's father who give a different reason for his leaving, saying that Henry had sex with one of the slaves, and was so ashamed that he left, (now who knows if Henry would have left if he knew that doing that was not frowned upon, but Henry Carver was a simple naive boy who didn't think much through). Either way, Mr.Henry Carver left Kansas, Alabama and traveled West in 1797, at the age of 22. He left without a compass, which would have been useful, as he started to travel Southwest, and eventually hit the Gulf of Mexico. Not being an intelligent man, Mr.Henry Carver assumed it was the other side of America. He continued on and eventually made it to the middle of Mexico.

He spent a year there and eventually found out he was, in fact, not on the other side of the America. So, he traveled North West, now, and eventually found a plot of land he liked so much. It was by that time he was with his friend, El Nocion, who he had come from with mid-Mexico and traveled with. El Nocion wanted to call the place El Ciudad del Mer, but Mr.Henry Carver did not like the idea and instead proclaimed the area called "San Antonia." It was by this hap-chance that Mr.Henry Carver became the first mayor of San Antonia. Now, San Antonia was not oficially part of the Confederacy of America, but nobody seemed to mind that it was just two guys with a single house.

Now, Mr.Henry Carver was the first, but others soon came. In 1799, in March, arrived a family, a mother, father, two sons and a daugther, who seemed to take the same route as he did. They found Mr.Henry Carver, and El Nocion, and the family decided to stay put, as San Antonia was a beautiful place, right up on the coast of California, but beyond the coast, a mile inland, it got dreadfully hot. The family built their house, and the father of the family, named Juper, decided to run for mayor. Mr.Henry Carver believed heavily in the system of electing officials and called for an election, despite the high probabilty that of the four people of voting status (Carver, Father Juper, Mother Juper, and one of the Juper sons, El Nocion was disenfranchised as being a foreigner) three would vote against him.

Mr. Juper won the election and because he was a bigot, he made El Nocion into a second class citizen. Mr. Henry Carver was angry that his good friend was treated as a lesser person, but his strong beliefs in the American political system bounded him to the decision of the mayor. El Nocion left a few months later right after a second family, the Baughs from North Carolina. It seemed that people traveling West found themselves always traveling Southwest, hit the middle of Meixco, then decided to go Northwest, and eventually hit San Antonia. At least for the Jupers and Baughs. After El Nocion left San Antonia, Mayor Juper felt that the area needed to be protected so he appointed Mr.Charlie Baugh, the father of the only Baugh son and his wife Sally, to be the town sheriff.

It was in about 1802, that Mr.Henry Carver married Mayer Juper's daughter and had a son by the name of Yatkins Carver. The name has no real orgin, besides that was the sound that Mrs.Henry Carver believed was yelped during the conceiving of their son. Yatkins Carver married to some new comer in 1827 and had a son, who named after his paw, and set up shop as a furniture maker on the Main Street of San Antonia.

By the time the Mexican-American war ended, 70 people had come to the town of San Antonia, but it was still largely ignored by the US government. It was slightly after that in 1842, that the Crazy Cowboy came to town as a young man looking for work and found it with the Printer Horace. In 1843, Crazy Cowboy went south and was not heard from in San Antonia for 10 years or so.