"Cities, like people, are formed as much by their stories as they are by the laying of brick or the mixing of mud and water." So says award-winning journalist Jan Jarboe Russell in San Antonio: A Cultural Tapestry. And the stories she tells about her adopted hometown are, indeed, building blocks for the spirit that makes the city come to life. Recounting the popular folk legend of La Llorona, the old woman of the river, Russell writes of the deep...