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Big Bend Tales

By Mike , Cox

Book information

Publisher
Arcadia Publishing Inc.;History Press
ISBN
9781614238164, 9781609493301, 1614238162
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
2 MB (2511005 bytes)
Series
American chronicles (Series)
Pages
(142 pages) : illustrations\0
Time added
2020-07-26 19:24:52
Local -- Anecdotes;Big Bend Region (Tex.) -- SociaManners and customs;Local history;Biographies;Anec

Description

Travel deeper into the Texas outback with writer-historian Mike Cox as he recounts the lesser-known stories from Alpine, Fort Davis and Marfa. Revisit the grandeur of Alpine's Holland Hotel, peer through the telescope at the McDonald Observatory and dip your toes in the water hole at Ernst Tinaja, if you dare. Travel back to a time when the Comanche Trail stretched one thousand miles from Kansas to Mexico, making the Big Bend difficult to defend and impossible to resist trying. Celebrate Cinco de Mayo, the anniversary of Benito Juarez's decisive defeat of the French at Pueblo in 1867. If nothing else, come for the lore and history that is as extensive in the Big Bend region as the mountain passes and desert stretches themselves.

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