Big Bend Vistas
Author | : William MacLeod |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 190 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Big Bend Region (Tex.) |
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Author | : William MacLeod |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 190 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Big Bend Region (Tex.) |
ISBN | : |
Author | : William MacLeod |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 255 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Big Bend Region (Tex.) |
ISBN | : 9780972778503 |
The Big Bend is bizarre, mountainous, stark, dramatic, full of exotic shapes and colors, unlike anything else in Texas.
Author | : Thomas C. Alex |
Publisher | : Arcadia Publishing |
Total Pages | : 132 |
Release | : 2009-12-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780738578538 |
The Rio Grande makes a large bend into Mexico and forms the "boot heel" of Texas that is the Big Bend. Big Bend National Park nestles inside this meander, and its history is as much a part of Mexico as it is of Texas. The remote border location is historically replete with rich cultural diversity, including nomadic bands of Native Americans, Spanish explorers, Mexican and Anglo farmers, ranchers, miners, military men, and entrepreneurs. In the 1930s, a handful of people saw the Big Bend's majestic ruggedness as a place where all Americans could touch the Creator in nature and appreciate the alien qualities that both test and console the human spirit. This remote frontier still draws the souls of those seeking wide-open vistas and crystal-clear night skies.
Author | : Bruce A. Glasrud |
Publisher | : Texas A&M University Press |
Total Pages | : 346 |
Release | : 2013-09-18 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1623491053 |
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 | : Patricia Wilson Clothier |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2017-10-08 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780974504827 |
This is Patricia Clothier's story of growing up in the 1930s and 1940s on a vast ranch in the mountains and desert hugging the Mexican border in the Big Bend country of Texas, Before it became a national park. Her family weathered rattlesnakes and drought, accidents, loneliness and financial hardships of the Great Depression with fortitude, ingenuity, and grace. Like their scattered neighbors ? miles away over rugged roads ? it was the love of the land that gripped and held them there. Clothier paints a picture of this cast and glorious territory with words as vivid as any artist with a pallet of paints. A joy to read ? an adventure of Western life you'll never forget.' Jean Bradfish (award winning author and editor)
Author | : Virginia Madison |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 168 |
Release | : 1968 |
Genre | : Big Bend National Park (Tex.) |
ISBN | : |
Author | : David Courtney |
Publisher | : University of Texas Press |
Total Pages | : 120 |
Release | : 2017-04-25 |
Genre | : Humor |
ISBN | : 1477312978 |
A collection of Courtney's columns from the Texas Monthly, curing the curious, exorcizing bedevilment, and orienting the disoriented, advising "on such things as: Is it wrong to wear your football team's jersey to church? When out at a dancehall, do you need to stick with the one that brung ya? Is it real Tex-Mex if it's served with a side of black beans? Can one have too many Texas-themed tattoos?"--Amazon.com.
Author | : Ronnie C. Tyler |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 1975 |
Genre | : Big Bend National Park (Tex.) |
ISBN | : |
Author | : |
Publisher | : Farcountry Press |
Total Pages | : 86 |
Release | : 2004-06 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 9781560372868 |
A place of merging natural environments, Big Bend National Park is the perfect photographic subject. Desert, river valley, mountain, and plain, are all captured beautifully by photographers Guynes and Reynolds. All seasons of the year are presented, as the terrain is cast in new light in each. From broad scenics of the Rio Grande to close-ups of unusual flora of the region, from shots of the sprawling badlands to images of desert wildlife, the magic of Big Bend National Park is presented skillfully by these two talented photographers.
Author | : Marcia Hatfield Daudistel |
Publisher | : University of Texas Press |
Total Pages | : 289 |
Release | : 2013-10-20 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0292753047 |
The Texas of vast open spaces inhabited by independent, self-reliant men and women may be more of a dream than a reality for the state’s largely urban population, but it still exists in the Big Bend. One of the most sparsely settled areas of the United States, the Big Bend attracts people who are willing to forego many modern conveniences for a lifestyle that proclaims “don’t fence me in.” Marcia Hatfield Daudistel and Bill Wright believe that the character traits exemplified by folks in the Big Bend—including self-sufficiency, friendliness, and neighborliness—go back to the founding of the state. In this book, they introduce us to several dozen Big Bend residents—old and young, long-settled and recently arrived, racially diverse—who show us what it means to be an authentic Texan. Interviewing people in Marathon, Big Bend National Park, Terlingua, Redford, Presidio, Alpine, Marfa, Valentine, Balmorhea, Limpia Crossing, and Fort Davis, Daudistel and Wright discover the reasons why residents of the Big Bend make this remote area of Texas their permanent home. In talking to ranchers and writers, entrepreneurs and artists, people living off the grid and urban refugees, they find a common willingness to overcome difficulties through individual skill and initiative. As one interviewee remarks, you have to have a lot of “try” in you to make a life in the Big Bend. Bill Wright’s photographs of the people and landscapes are a perfect complement to the stories of these authentic Texans. Together, these voices and images offer the most complete, contemporary portrait of the Texas Big Bend.