Beneath the Window

Beneath the Window
Title Beneath the Window PDF eBook
Author Patricia Wilson Clothier
Publisher
Pages 0
Release 2017-10-08
Genre Biography & Autobiography
ISBN 9780974504827

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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)

The Big Bend of the Rio Grande

The Big Bend of the Rio Grande
Title The Big Bend of the Rio Grande PDF eBook
Author Ross A. Maxwell
Publisher
Pages 130
Release 2001
Genre
ISBN

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A Guide to the Rocks, Landscape, Geologic History, and Settlers of the Area of Big Bend National Park.

Exploring the Big Bend Country

Exploring the Big Bend Country
Title Exploring the Big Bend Country PDF eBook
Author Peter Koch
Publisher University of Texas Press
Pages 193
Release 2009-02-17
Genre Nature
ISBN 0292779879

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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.

A Year in the National Parks

A Year in the National Parks
Title A Year in the National Parks PDF eBook
Author Stefanie Payne
Publisher
Pages 240
Release 2018-05
Genre
ISBN 9780692926789

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On January 1 of 2016, Stefanie Payne, a creative professional working at NASA Headquarters, and Jonathan Irish, a photographer with National Geographic, left their lives in Washington, D.C. and hit the open road on an expedition to explore and document all 59 of America's national parks during the centennial celebration of the U.S. National Park Service - 59 parks in 52 weeks - the Greatest American Road Trip. Captured in more than 300,000 digital photographs, written stories, and videos shared by the national and international media, their project resulted in an incredible view of America's National Park System seen in its 100th year. 'A Year in the National Parks, The Greatest American Road Trip' is a gorgeous visual journey through our cherished public lands, detailing a rich tapestry of what makes each park special, as seen along an epic journey to visit them all within one special celebratory year.

Little Big Bend

Little Big Bend
Title Little Big Bend PDF eBook
Author Roy Morey
Publisher
Pages 348
Release 2008
Genre Nature
ISBN 9780896726130

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A photographic and descriptive guide to the diverse plant life of the Big Bend region of Texas, including uncommon or rare species such as orchids.

Chronicles of the Big Bend

Chronicles of the Big Bend
Title Chronicles of the Big Bend PDF eBook
Author W. D. Smithers
Publisher TX A&m-TX St Historical Assoc.
Pages 160
Release 2013-02-01
Genre
ISBN 9781876112615

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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.

Death In Big Bend

Death In Big Bend
Title Death In Big Bend PDF eBook
Author Laurence Parent
Publisher Laurence Parent Photography, Incorporated
Pages 216
Release 2010
Genre True Crime
ISBN 9780974504872

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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.