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Author : Elton Miles
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1987-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0890963606
Miles evokes Indian, Mexican and Anglo traditions that converge in this area in this collection of tales. They cover supernatural phenomena such as the Marfa lights and water witching, murders, feuds, and lost treasures.
Author : Mike Cox
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2011-08-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781614238164
Travel deeper into the Texas outback with writer-historian Mike Cox as he recounts the lesser-known stories from Alpine, Fort Davis and Marfa. Revisit the grandeur of Alpine's Holland Hotel, peer through the telescope at the McDonald Observatory and dip your toes in the water hole at Ernst Tinaja, if you dare. Travel back to a time when the Comanche Trail stretched one thousand miles from Kansas to Mexico, making the Big Bend difficult to defend and impossible to resist trying. Celebrate Cinco de Mayo, the anniversary of Benito Juarez's decisive defeat of the French at Pueblo in 1867. If nothing else, come for the lore and history that is as extensive in the Big Bend region as the mountain passes and desert stretches themselves.
Author : Walter Fulcher
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 87 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Big Bend Region (Tex.)
ISBN : OCLC:13924931
Author : Elton Miles
Publisher : Centennial Series of the Assoc
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : History
ISBN : 0890965420
"Centennial series of the Association of Former Students, Texas A & M University ; no. 46." A collection of tall tales and legends of the Big Bend Region of Texas.
Author : Bill Roorbach
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 187 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2013-05-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780820346267
Through quirky plots, one-of-kind characters, and more than a few twists, the stories in Big Bend examine gentle-hearted men and their relationships. From made-in-heaven meetings to troublesome liaisons, Roorbach's characters experience romance in unexpected, sometimes disastrous ways. In "Fog," a teenage boy learns hard lessons about canoes, the Gulf of Maine, sex, and love. A struggling young artist goes home for the holidays in search of succor for the stomach—and heart—with poor results in "Thanksgiving." Other stories recount the ultimately disastrous reunion of estranged friends, an unemployed architect's foolish courting with bad company, and a middle-aged rock star's struggle with the urge to settle down. In the tiitle story, "Big Bend," a grieving widower, troubled by his own waning years, is tempted by a seductively attentive birdwatcher no older than his daughter. Poignant tales of hauntingly familiar situations, Bill Roorbach's stories are full of heart, romance, edgy humor, and the frequently concealed vulnerability of men.
Author : Elton Miles
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Fiction
ISBN : IND:39000005590398
Here among other things are legends of demons and magic; a collection of corridos (Mexican folk ballads) of the Big Bend; tales of treasure like the Terlingua Bootlegger''s Hoard; a mini-history of the mining community of Shafter; and a profile of Maggie Smith, longtime border storekeeper, dealer in candelilla wax and folk healer.
Author : Elton Miles
Publisher : Centennial the Association of
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Fiction
ISBN : IND:30000037294265
"Centennial series of the Association of Former Students, Texas A & M University ; no. 46." A collection of tall tales and legends of the Big Bend Region of Texas.
Author : Laurence Parent
Publisher : Laurence Parent Photography, Incorporated
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 0974504874
Most people visit Big Bend National Park and have a wonderful, incident-free vacation. For a tiny number, however, a simple mistake, unpreparedness, or pure bad luck has lead to catastrophe. Massive rescue efforts and fatalities, while rare, do happen at the park. Heat stroke, dehydration, hypothermia, drowning, falls, lightning, and even murder have claimed victims at Big Bend. This book chronicles selected rescues and tragedies that have happened there since the early 1980s. The lessons you learn reading this book may save your life.
Author : Bruce A. Glasrud,Robert J. Mallouf
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2013-09-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9781623491055
The Big Bend region of Texas—variously referred to as “El Despoblado” (the uninhabited land), “a land of contrasts,” “Texas’ last frontier,” or simply as part of the Trans-Pecos—enjoys a long, colorful, and eventful history, a history that began before written records were maintained. With Big Bend’s Ancient and Modern Past, editors Bruce A. Glasrud and Robert J. Mallouf provide a helpful compilation of articles originally published in the Journal of Big Bend Studies, reviewing the unique past of the Big Bend area from the earliest habitation to 1900. Scholars of the region investigate not only the peoples who have successively inhabited it but also the nature of the environment and the responses to that environment. As the studies in this book demonstrate, the character of the region has, to a great extent, dictated its history. The study of Big Bend history is also the study of borderlands history. Studying and researching across borders or boundaries, whether national, state, or regional, requires a focus on the factors that often both unite and divide the inhabitants. The dual nature of citizenship, of land holding, of legal procedures and remedies, of education, and of history permeate the lives and livelihoods of past and present residents of the Big Bend.
Author : Elton Miles
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-17
Category : Big Bend Region (Texas)--History
ISBN : OCLC:1311959306
Author : Virginia Madison,Hallie Crawford Stillwell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1958
Category : Big Bend Country
ISBN : UOM:39015012276963
Tall tales and speculation have long surrounded the origins of place names in the Big Bend Country--that "wild, thorn-incubating frontier" known earlier as the Bad Lands of Texas. The "Big Bend" refers to the crooked elbow of the Rio Grande, which curves around almost seven million acres of canyon, mountain and desert. It encompasses towns, canyons, creeks and draws bearing such curious and intriguing names as Vinegarron, Cow Heaven, Shot Tower, Pummel Peak, and Robber's Roost. Invariably these names cause the visitor to point and ask "How come it's called that?" This history of Big Bend name-christenings is designed to answer that question. Authors Virginia Madison and Hallie Stillwell obtained interviews, pored over old maps and newspapers, tracked down documents, forded streams, and junketed vertically up the mountains of the Big Bend to find the folktales, and the authentic stories too, behind the names. Travelers along highways 118 and 67 will thumb through this book to find out about Marathon, Alpine, and Maverick Mountain. Langtry visitors (Was it or wasn't it named for Lily Langtry?) will enjoy tales of irascible Judge Roy Bean. Tourists to the Big Bend National Park will marvel at the three-quarters of a million acres of mountainous magnificence. How Come It's Called That? will add greatly to their enjoyment of the area by relating the lore behind the landmarks. This little treasury of stories, preserving the richness of folk history and thought, will please tourists, residents, and armchair adventurers. Written informally, with fascinating sidelights and a charming conversational style, here is a chronicle of topographic name-calling by Texans -- Book jacket.
Author : Aileen Kilgore Henderson
Publisher : TCU Press
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0875652646
In January 1952, Aileen Kilgore was teaching forty-three fourth graders at a public school in Northport, Alabama. Her life, filled with lesson preparations, in-service meetings, countywide meetings, and special projects, seemed grim, and she resolved to change it. Remembering tales she'd heard of the Big Bend region in Texas, she wrote to the school board at Alpine, applying for a position. To her surprise an offer came back to teach at a new school within the Big Bend National Park. She accepted. The young schoolteacher was at first overwhelmed by Big Bend--the wildness, the limitless space, the isolation, and the exuberant Texas children. But she soon came to love the area and the people. During her first year at Panther Junction, she met one special ranger named Art Henderson. When he was transferred to the Blue Ridge Parkway that summer, there was a hole in her life. During her two years at Panther Junction, Aileen wrote long and frequent letters--to her father working for the railroad at Boligee, Alabama, to her mother and sister living in Brookwood, Alabama, to her sisters in Tuscaloosa and San Diego, and finally, the second year, to Art Henderson. Those edited letters make up this book.
Author : Bill Roorbach
Publisher : Catapult
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2002-11-27
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781582432571
Through quirky plots, one-of-kind characters, and more than a few twists, the stories in Big Bend examine gentle-hearted men and their relationships. From made-in-heaven meetings to troublesome liaisons, Roorbach's characters experience romance in unexpected, sometimes disastrous ways. In "Fog," a teenage boy learns hard lessons about canoes, the Gulf of Maine, sex, and love. A struggling young artist goes home for the holidays in search of succor for the stomach―and heart―with poor results in "Thanksgiving." Other stories recount the ultimately disastrous reunion of estranged friends, an unemployed architect's foolish courting with bad company, and a middle-aged rock star's struggle with the urge to settle down. In the tiitle story, "Big Bend," a grieving widower, troubled by his own waning years, is tempted by a seductively attentive birdwatcher no older than his daughter. Poignant tales of hauntingly familiar situations, Bill Roorbach's stories are full of heart, romance, edgy humor, and the frequently concealed vulnerability of men.
Author : Don Cadden
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2011-04
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1432771175
"In our leggings' pockets we'd each stashed guns. I'd packed a .357 magnum pistol, and Jose had a .22 pistol. When we got close to the wax camp, Jose said he thought they would have a trap set for us, and we'd be outnumbered. We both agreed that the best thing we could do was to keep our mouths shut under the circumstances. We rode into the camp, and Casus, the man I figured stole the cow, had a little fire going and had coffee ready and some tacos made. He invited us off our horses, and I noticed a .30-.30 rifle sitting pretty close to his hand." Apache Adams is somewhat of a living legend out in the Big Bend country of Texas. Born in 1937 and raised on the Rio Grande, he has lived the cowboy life most people believe ended in the 1800's. He has been inducted into the Big Bend Cowboy Hall of Fame, given the Working Cowboy Award by the National Cowboy Symposium, the Heritage Award by the Texas Cowboy Poetry Gathering, and won more buckles and saddles then he can count. But this book isn't about awards or buckles; it's about the life and adventures of a working cowboy. Ride along with Apache through the desolate canyons of the Big Bend and swim the Rio Grande horseback tracking cow thieves. Ride the river catching illegal Mexican cattle. Take a deep seat in your saddle when you rope a 2,000 pound maverick bull, get him to the ground, and tie his feet without any help. Tied Hard and Fast isn't a bunch of tall tales. It is the compilation of a lifetime of stories and adventures told in the voice of the man who lived them. "We followed the dogs up into a big rock slide, and they had about a 70- to 80-pound female mountain lion treed on a big rock. The dogs had her surrounded, but none of us had any kind of a gun. So I jerked my rope down and just kinda pitched it at the lion on that rock. She swatted at the rope, and I pulled it up tight around her front paw. The mule I was riding was pretty green and, when the cat started throwing a fit with the rope on her paw, decided to take off. I jerked the lion off the rock, and then the dogs all jumped on the lion. So I was dragging a lion around in circles with a bunch of dogs chewing on her, and she was putting up a pretty good fight with three legs." Along with living these stories, Apache has shared them with audiences at the Texas Cowboy Poetry Gathering, the Arizona Cowboy Poet's Gathering, the Ruidosa New Mexico Gathering, and other events across the west. Once you pick this book up, you'll say, "I'll just read one more story and then put it down for the night..".but you can't!
Author : Kenneth Baxter Ragsdale
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 089096811X
Having first visited the Big Bend in 1928, Kenneth B. Ragsdale has been digging around in and writing about the region for decades. In Big Bend Country: Land of the Unexpected, he takes a nostalgic retrospective journey through the times and places of this increasingly popular corner of West Texas to say goodbye to those who made the history, created the myths, and lived the legends.?Building his stories around themes of compassion, conflict, and compromise, he profiles both famous and relatively unknown figures. He tells stories of curanderas (healers), charity workers, a woman who practiced medicine without a license, and another who started a private lending library in her store to encourage rural, poor children to read. In contrast to these stories, he chronicles blood feuds, shootouts, and the violence bred in wild, relatively lawless spaces.?Ragsdale?s stories cover a half-century, roughtly 1900 to 1955, from wagon trains to the filming of an epic movie, a time in which the face of the Big Bend changed: the quicksilver mines closed, a national park was established, isolation and cattle gave way to vacation ranchettes and tourists. ?Big Bend Country is a well-done and useful work and should be welcomed by all lovers of that wonderful country.? ?Dallas Morning News ?If you?ve never been to Big Bend, Ken Ragsdale?s new book will make you want to go there.??Austin American-Statesman.
