Author : John Jameson
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 35,34 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Travel
ISBN : 0292740425
Describes the development of Texas's Big Bend National Park, as well as the controversies that have shaped it over its first fifty years.
Author : Ross A. Maxwell
Publisher :
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 50,33 MB
Release : 2001
Category :
ISBN :
A Guide to the Rocks, Landscape, Geologic History, and Settlers of the Area of Big Bend National Park.
Author : Laurence Parent
Publisher : Laurence Parent Photography, Incorporated
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 16,42 MB
Release : 2010
Category : 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 : Steve Kemp
Publisher : Farcountry Press
Page : 49 pages
File Size : 15,51 MB
Release : 2005-02
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1560373210
"Come along with Julie, Grant, and their family as they follow Ranger Gus and find poop (scat) and footprints (tracks) and discover which animal made them" -- Back cover.
Author : Patricia Wilson Clothier
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 17,11 MB
Release : 2017-10-08
Category : 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 : Peter Koch
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 25,52 MB
Release : 2009-02-17
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0292779879
This collection of writings and images by the legendary Big Bend photographer offers adventure, history, personal musings, and natural beauty. Photographer-naturalist Peter Koch first visited Big Bend National Park in February, 1945, on assignment to take promotional pictures for the National Park Service. He planned to spend a couple of weeks, and ended up staying for the rest of his life. Koch’s magnificent photographs and documentary films introduced the park to people across the United States and remain an invaluable visual record of the first four decades of Big Bend National Park. In this book, Koch’s daughter June Cooper Price draws on her father’s photographs, newspaper columns, and journal entries, as well as short pieces by other family members, to present his vision and many experiences of the Big Bend. The adventure begins with a six-day photographic trip through Santa Elena Canyon on a raft made from agave flower stalks. Koch also describes hiking on mountain trails and driving the scenic loop around Fort Davis; “wax smuggling” and other ways of making a living on the Mexican border; ranching in the Big Bend; collaborating with botanist Barton Warnock; and the history and beauty of Presidio County, the Rio Grande, and the Chihuahuan Desert.
Author : Nate Frisch
Publisher : Creative Education
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 27,5 MB
Release : 2024-07-15
Category : Big Bend National Park (Tex.)
ISBN : 9781640268654
"An intermediate-level survey of vast Big Bend National Park in Texas, covering its popular natural features, wildlife, and history. Includes captions, glossary, additional resources, and an index"--
Author : Dana Stuart
Publisher :
Page : 30 pages
File Size : 33,51 MB
Release : 2021-01-15
Category :
ISBN : 9780578840086
Come along on a young boy's discovery of Big Bend National Park. By enjoying the desert and mountain landscapes, stargazing and visiting an adobe cottage with no running water or electricity, he grows closer to Texas geography and learns about environmental protection and conservation. He goes to the cultural town of Terlingua and visits an old cemetery on Dia de Los Muertos. He swims in the Rio Grande River, thinking about how borders and connections work between the USA and Mexico. The interesting experiences with his family and dog create an adventure to remember for a lifetime.
Author : Terry Tempest Williams
Publisher : Sarah Crichton Books
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 45,65 MB
Release : 2016-05-31
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0374712263
America’s national parks are breathing spaces in a world in which such spaces are steadily disappearing, which is why more than 300 million people visit the parks each year. Now Terry Tempest Williams, the author of the environmental classic Refuge and the beloved memoir When Women Were Birds, returns with The Hour of Land, a literary celebration of our national parks, an exploration of what they mean to us and what we mean to them. From the Grand Tetons in Wyoming to Acadia in Maine to Big Bend in Texas and more, Williams creates a series of lyrical portraits that illuminate the unique grandeur of each place while delving into what it means to shape a landscape with its own evolutionary history into something of our own making. Part memoir, part natural history, and part social critique, The Hour of Land is a meditation and a manifesto on why wild lands matter to the soul of America.
Author : W. D. Smithers
Publisher : TX A&m-TX St Historical Assoc.
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 29,90 MB
Release : 2013-02-01
Category :
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.
