A Tale from Old San Antone

Did San Antonio's Chili Queen tradition arise from a massacre?

Part one of this story concerns the Battle of Medina. You might want to read it first, but it probably is not entirely necessary.

One day in 1885, a writer for the San Antonio Light was introduced to a tiny, wizened vieja in the old city. Then around a century old, she still remembered the turbulent and violent days that marked the end of Spanish rule in…