Big Bend Country And Chihuahua Al Pacifico
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Big Bend Country And Chihuahua Al Pacifico
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Author : Fred M. McCarty
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1968
Big Bend Country And Chihuahua Al Pacifico written by Fred M. McCarty and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1968 with Big Bend National Park (Tex.) categories.
A Guide To Big Bend Country And Chihuahua Al Pacifico
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Author : Fred M. McCarty
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1968
A Guide To Big Bend Country And Chihuahua Al Pacifico written by Fred M. McCarty and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1968 with Big Bend National Park categories.
From bookcover: "Big Bend Country is the author's personal recollections of four trips to the area to gather colored pictures. The visits were spaced over a four year period. The illustrations are those selected from many taken. One of these trips involved a life raft trip through rugged Santa Elena Canyon that almost cost the lives of the three members of the party." "Chihuahua Al Pacifico tells the story of the building of Mexico's fabulous railroad, a dream of the Prince of Promoters, Arthur E. Stilwell, who planned the lines from Kansas City to Topolobampo to provide the shortest possible route from the grain belt to the Pacific Ocean. Due largely to the revolution in Mexico during the first decades of the twentieth century, the enterprise was a financial failure. Stilwell died before the completion of the road after more than sixty years and the expenditure of more than $100 million. The railroad is now one of the most scenic lines in the world.The author made four round trips over the route to gather the pictures over a period of five years.".
A Guide To Big Bend Country And Chihuahua Al Pacifico
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1977
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Exploring The Big Bend Country
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Author : Peter Koch
language : en
Publisher: Univ of TX + ORM
Release Date : 2009-02-17
Exploring The Big Bend Country written by Peter Koch and has been published by Univ of TX + ORM this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-02-17 with Nature categories.
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.
Big Bend Country
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Author : Kenneth Baxter Ragsdale
language : en
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
Release Date : 1998
Big Bend Country written by Kenneth Baxter Ragsdale and has been published by Texas A&M University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
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.
God S Country Or Devil S Playground
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Author : Barney Nelson
language : en
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Release Date : 2002-11-01
God S Country Or Devil S Playground written by Barney Nelson and has been published by University of Texas Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-11-01 with Nature categories.
The dramatic desert landscapes of the Big Bend country along the Texas-Mexico border reminded historian Walter Prescott Webb of "an earth-wreck in which a great section of country was shaken down, turned over, blown up, and set on fire." By contrast, naturalist Aldo Leopold considered the region a mountainous paradise in which even the wild Mexican parrots had no greater concern than "whether this new day which creeps slowly over the canyons is bluer or golder than its predecessors, or less so." Whether it impresses people as God's country or as the devil's playground, the Big Bend typically evokes strong responses from almost everyone who lives or visits there. In this anthology of nature writing, Barney Nelson gathers nearly sixty literary perspectives on the landscape and life of the Big Bend region, broadly defined as Trans-Pecos Texas and northern Chihuahua, Mexico. In addition to Leopold and Webb, the collection includes such well-known writers as Edward Abbey, Mary Austin, Roy Bedichek, and Frederick Olmsted, as well as a wide range of voices that includes explorers, trappers, cowboys, ranch wives, curanderos, college presidents, scientists, locals, tourists, historians, avisadores, and waitresses. Following a personal introduction by Barney Nelson, the pieces are grouped thematically to highlight the distinctive ways in which writers have responded to the Big Bend.
The Big Bend
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Author : Ronnie C. Tyler
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1975
The Big Bend written by Ronnie C. Tyler and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1975 with Big Bend National Park (Tex.) categories.
The Big Bend
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Author : Tyler
language : en
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
Release Date : 1996
The Big Bend written by Tyler and has been published by Texas A&M University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996 with History categories.
A long needed account of the human invasion of this rugged Texas desert land.
The Big Bend Country Of Texas
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Author : Virginia Madison
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1955
The Big Bend Country Of Texas written by Virginia Madison and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1955 with Big Bend Region (Tex.) categories.
"In this book I have attempted to tell the story of the Big Bend country ... My primary purpose in telling the region's story is to preserve as many of the old-timers' stories as possible, and to corral them between the covers of one book. some of the best-loved legends and yarns have more than one version and have been told before in one way or another by Alice Jack Shipman, Barry Scobee, Carl Raht, J. Frank Dobie, Cas Edwards, and others. With their permission, I have retold some of the stories and have added many tales which have never before been published."--Page vii.
Land Of The Desert Sun
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Author :
language : en
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
Release Date : 1998
Land Of The Desert Sun written by and has been published by Texas A&M University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with History categories.
D. Gentry Steele chronicles the experiences he had while photographing Texas's Big Bend region and black-and-white photographs capture the beauty of the area.