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Author : Elton Miles
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 43,5 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 : Walter Fulcher
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 87 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Big Bend Region (Tex.)
ISBN : OCLC:13924931
Author : Mike Cox
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 51,7 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 : Elton Miles
Publisher : Centennial Series of the Assoc
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 42,8 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 : Elton Miles
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Fiction
ISBN : UOM:39015016922976
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 : John Jameson
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2010-07-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9780292788626
The history of the first national park in Texas—the politics, intrigues, controversies, and the people inspired by the stunning desert environment. A breathtaking country of rugged mountain peaks, uninhabited desert, and spectacular river canyons, Big Bend is one of the United States’ most remote national parks and among Texas’ most popular tourist attractions. Located in the great bend of the Rio Grande that separates Texas and Mexico, the park comprises some 800,000 acres, an area larger than the state of Rhode Island, and draws over 300,000 visitors each year. The Story of Big Bend National Park offers a comprehensive, highly readable history of the park from before its founding in 1944 up to the present. John Jameson opens with a fascinating look at the mighty efforts involved in persuading Washington officials and local landowners that such a park was needed. He details how money was raised and land acquired, as well as how the park was publicized and developed for visitors. Moving into the present, he discusses such issues as natural resource management, predator protection in the park, and challenges to land, water, and air. Along the way, he paints colorful portraits of many individuals, from area residents to park rangers to Lady Bird Johnson, whose 1966 float trip down the Rio Grande brought the park to national attention. This history will be required reading for all visitors and prospective visitors to Big Bend National Park. For everyone concerned about our national parks, it makes a persuasive case for continued funding and wise stewardship of the parks as they face the twin pressures of skyrocketing attendance and declining budgets.
Author : Roland H. Wauer,Carl M. Fleming
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Nature
ISBN : 1585441562
Given in honor of District Governor Hugh Summers and Mrs. Ahnise Summers by the Rotary Club of Aggieland with matching support from the Sara and John H. Lindsey '44 Fund, Texas A & M University Press, 2004.
Author : Bruce A. Glasrud,Robert J. Mallouf
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 41,8 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 : Bill Roorbach
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 187 pages
File Size : 46,7 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 : J.O. Langford,Fred Gipson
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2010-07-05
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0292788398
A first-hand account of a chronically ill man who uproots his family to settle on the banks of the Rio Grande, written with the author of Old Yeller. To the wild and fabulous country where the Rio Grande makes its big bend, J. O. Langford came in 1909 with his wife and daughter in search of health and a home. High on a bluff overlooking the spot where Tornillo Creek pours its waters into the turbulent Rio Grande, the Langfords built their home, a rude structure of adobe blocks in a land reputed to be inhabited only by bandits and rattlesnakes. Big Bend is the story of the Langfords’ life in the rugged and spectacularly beautiful country which they came to call their own. Langford’s account is told with the help of Fred Gipson, author of Old Yeller and Hound Dog Man. “Big Bend. . . is the story of a way of life, beautiful in its simplicity, a story that can be read again and again for it is a book of substance.” —New York Herald Tribune “Not a big book this, but as warming to the senses and to the heart as a mesquite fire on the open hearth. It is, also, a book that reflects a commonality of the Western experience of this Nation—a homesteader’s story.” —San Francisco Chronicle “This is one of those rare books of actual experience with the smooth continuity of the best fiction.” —Houston Chronicle
Author : Virginia Madison,Hallie Crawford Stillwell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 129 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Big Bend Region (Tex.)
ISBN : OCLC:859351342
Tales of how places within the Big Bend Country came to be named and the incidents that happened there. A colorful story of a country, its history, and its people. Each name has a story behind it and each is part of the life of this extraordinary country.
Author : Elton Miles
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-17
Category : Big Bend Region (Texas)--History
ISBN : OCLC:1311959306
Author : Tyler
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : History
ISBN : 0890967067
A long needed account of the human invasion of this rugged Texas desert land.
Author : J.O. Langford,Fred Gipson
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1980-12-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780292707344
Tells the story of J.O. Langford, who brought his family to Big Bend in the early 1900's. Photographs.
Author : Aileen Kilgore Henderson
Publisher : TCU Press
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 41,8 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.
