I looked toward the Gulf - where there were no plank bridges - and realized I'd heard thunder far off to the west.
She was cut off by the heavily guarded plank bridges over the San Antonio River.
In the 1760s, a crude log bridge, later replaced by a wooden plank bridge, was built on the site.
Random as the animal tracks and occasional plank bridges were, they seemed to head right for it.
It replaced several flat wooden plank bridges that were swept away by high water or ice in the winter.
A rickety plank bridge took them to yet a third boat.
The man took a step to the dockside and walked the narrow plank bridge onto the deck of the galley.
His horse's hoofs drummed on the old plank bridge, still sturdy and solid.
He reached a rough plank bridge that crossed the tiny stream and stopped to rest a second and glance back along his trail.
The lady did not take them in over the drawbridge, however, but around to the narrow plank bridge that ended at the postern gate.