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view of the Rio Grande in Big Bend National Park
Photo courtesy Julie McConnell, 2004 |
Featured
Articles:
Big
Bend National Park and Robert M. Wagstaff by Mike Cox
If any mountain or some other notable geologic feature in the Big
Bend remains unnamed, by all rights it should honor one Robert M.
Wagstaff.
Ernst
Tinaja by Mike Cox
A geologic feature in Big Bend National Park called Ernst Tinaja,
a deep natural water hole dug out of the bedrock over the millenia
by erosion—a place of beauty tainted by a history of death.
The
Big Bend Then by Maggie Van Ostrand
"If you know why Texas Ranger Captain Charles L. Nevill spat
his fine pipe right out of his mouth, then you know more about Big
Bend history than most Texans..."
Avisadores:
Messengers of Light by Clay Coppedge
"Put me in another landscape and I might not even notice or
imagine this almost subliminal flash of light but Big Bend is, or
at least was, the land of avisadores..."
Yuccaing
it Up In the Big Bend by Frances Giles
and The Ballad of Dagger Flats (a.k.a. The Adventures of Las Dos
Francescas)
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Mariscal
Mine
"Deep inside" Big Bend National Park on Mariscal Mountain. A National
Register Historic District.
Photos courtesy Erik Whetstone
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NATIONAL PARKS
Big
Ben National Park
http://www.nps.gov/bibe/index.htm
Fort Davis
National Historic Site
http://www.nps.gov/foda/index.htm
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STATE PARKS
IN THE AREA
Big Bend
Ranch State Park
P O Box 2319 Presidio TX 79845
432/229-3416
Chihuahuan Desert
Along the Rio Grande from SE Presidio almost to Lajitas
Brewster and Presidio Counties.
Barton Warnock
Environmental Education Center
HC 70, Box 375 Terlingua
TX 79852
432/424-3327
Fort Leaton
State Historic Site
P O Box 2439 Presidio TX 79845
432/229-3613
Directions: Located 4 miles SE of Presidio on FM 170 (River Road)
one of the most scenic drive in Texas.
Davis Mountain
State Park
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