Celebrated San Antonio historian Lewis F. Fisher, whose Maverick Publishing Company was acquired by Trinity University Press in 2015, has published forty-five books on topics ranging from San Antonio's Spanish heritage to its urban development, and from the military to sports, architecture, and multicultural legends. A former member of the San Antonio River Commission, he has written numerous books himself, recently including Chili Queens, Hay Wagons, and Fandangos: The Spanish Plazas in Frontier San Antonio, winner of a San Antonio Conservation Society 2015 Publication Award, and Saving San Antonio: The Preservation of a Heritage, republished last year in a second edition. Fisher has received numerous local, state and national writing awards and was named a Texas Preservation Hero by the Conservation Society in 2014.