Chronicles Of The Big Bend
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Author | : W. D. Smithers |
Publisher | : TX A&m-TX St Historical Assoc. |
Total Pages | : 160 |
Release | : 2013-02-01 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781876112615 |
As a young teamster on a pack-mule train, Wilfred Dudley Smithers saw the Rio Grande's Big Bend for the first time in 1916, and it captured his imagination forever. For decades thereafter he returned to Texas' last great frontier-the great bend of the Rio Grande on the Texas-Mexico border-chronicling the region and its people in words and photographs. The years that Smithers chronicled in the Big Bend were sometimes violent ones. Pancho Villa and Chico Cano were among the many "bandits" playing hide-and-seek with the U.S. Cavalry-events Smithers recorded. He was also an eyewitness to liquor-running and smuggling during Prohibition. His principal subjects, however, were the people of the Big Bend: local ranchers, Mexican American and American families, miners, Texas Rangers, and others living simple lives in this harsh and beautiful land.
Author | : Laurence Parent |
Publisher | : Laurence Parent Photography, Incorporated |
Total Pages | : 216 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : True Crime |
ISBN | : 9780974504872 |
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 | : W. D. Smithers |
Publisher | : Texas State Historical Assn |
Total Pages | : 160 |
Release | : 2013-02-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780876112618 |
As a young teamster on a pack-mule train, the author saw the Rio Grande's Big Bend for the first time in 1916, and it captured his imagination forever. After half a century of photography, his superlative collection of nine thousand images ended up at the University of Texas at Austin, and in 1976 more than one hundred of these were reproduced in this book, a critically acclaimed work that until now has long been out of print.
Author | : Kenneth Baxter Ragsdale |
Publisher | : Texas A&M University Press |
Total Pages | : 316 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780890968116 |
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.
Author | : Ross A. Maxwell |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 130 |
Release | : 2001 |
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A Guide to the Rocks, Landscape, Geologic History, and Settlers of the Area of Big Bend National Park.
Author | : Juan Manuel Casas |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 303 |
Release | : 2008-08 |
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ISBN | : 9780974504858 |
Author | : Wilfred Dudley Smithers |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 168 |
Release | : 1976 |
Genre | : History |
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Author | : Alan Dean Foster |
Publisher | : Del Rey |
Total Pages | : 357 |
Release | : 2007-12-18 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0307416976 |
No matter how long or how hard they strive, no matter how extensive their education as a species, no matter what they experience of the small heavens and larger hells they create for themselves, it seems that humans are destined to see their technological accomplishments always exceed their ability to understand themselves.
Author | : Lloyd Alexander |
Publisher | : Henry Holt and Company (BYR) |
Total Pages | : 192 |
Release | : 2006-05-16 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 1429961961 |
The Castle of Llyr by Lloyd Alexander, Book Three in The Chronicles of Prydain Princess Eilonwy hates to leave her friend Taran, Assistant Pig-Keeper, and her beloved home, Caer Dallben. Why does she have to go to the Isle of Mona to train as a proper lady when she's already a princess? But Eilonwy soon faces much more than the ordeal of becoming a dignified young maiden, for she possesses magical powers sought by the evil enchantress Queen Achren. When Eilonwy is put under a deep spell, Taran and his companions set out on a dangerous quest to rescue her. Yet how can a lowly Assistant Pig-Keeper hope to stand against the most evil enchantress in all of Prydain?
Author | : Brad Lyons |
Publisher | : Chalice Press |
Total Pages | : 258 |
Release | : 2019-04-30 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 082720079X |
In America's Holy Ground: 61 Faithful Reflections on Our National Parks, dive deeper into a unique aspect of each park, from Acadia to Zion, and reframe how you think about the parks and your faith. Connections, sabbath, reflection, perspective, beginnings, art, restoration - these are just a few of the themes you'll encounter on your national park journey. A trio of questions with each entry will help you see the bigger picture of your life and new ways to approach your relationship with God, your community, and your faith. Whether you're on the road or at home in your reading nook, think about your favorite national park in a whole new way!