FRIO TOWN, TEXAS
hen Mexican General Antonio López de Santa Anna gathered his forces for the push toward the Alamo in 1836, he forded the Frio River at present-day Presidio Crossing. The banks were steep and the bottom too mucky to support Santa Anna’s heavy artillery, and his army lost sabers, cannonballs and other equipment while crossing—hence the military moniker “Presidio.” Four decades later Frio City, Texas, saddled up as a cowboy capital and flourished largely because of its proximity to
