In 1839, Jose Policarpo Rodriguez came north with his father from
Zaragosa, Mexico, to the Republic of Texas. Poli was ten years old
when he arrived in Texas, and he and his father settled in the Hill
Country near San Antonio. Poli grew up with Comanches, surveyed
territory for the Republic of Texas and the United States Army,
fought against warring Indians, and mapped settlements for
nineteenth-century German settlers in Texas. He was the first
non-Indian to discover the Big Bend Country and Cascades Caverns,
and during the Mexican-American War and the Civil War, he was
Captain of the San Antonio Home Guard. Caught between the three
main elements that made up early Texas-Mexicans, Indians, and
Anglos-he struggled to decide where his true loyalties lay, and his
decisions showed a kind of courage that was rare in those days. .
.and is still rare today.
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