Most of the papers published in this volume were originally presented in February 1995 at the first Trans-Pecos Rock Art Symposium in Alpine, Texas, hosted by Sul Ross State University and cosponsored by the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department (TPWD) and the university.  The idea for the symposium was conceived by the participants of a rock art recording expedition to Big Bend Ranch State Park in 1993, sponsored by the TPWD and organized and led by J. David Ing, the Regional Cultural Resource Coordinator.

Rock Art of the Chihuahuan Desert Borderlands (Occasional Papers)

Arts & Photography

History & Criticism

Center for Big Bend Studies

Exploring the Afro-Texas Experience is a broad-based compilation of source material on African-American history, folkways, fiction, films, and politics in Texas. Glasrud and Champion have performed a masterful job of creating a highly coherent and usable volume.

Exploring the Afro-Texas Experience: A Bibliography of Secondary Sources about Black Texans (Van Riebeeck Society)

History

Glasrud, Bruce A.

Champion, Laurie

Americas

Bosque Bonito is a first-hand account written by Robert "Bob" Keil, a U.S. cavalryman stationed in the Big Bend during the violent years of the Mexican Revolution. From 1913 to 1918, Keil lived in the borderlands along the Rio Grande in the wild and primitive Big Bend country of West Texas. After 1918, Keil remained in the Big Bend to work as a Civil Service packer on the pack trains. Keil's writing offers a different perspective of the Brite Ranch raid, the Porvenir massacre,and the Nevill raid as well as the pursuit of bandits into Mexico.

Bosque Bonito: Violent Times along the Borderlands during the Mexican Revolution (Center for Big Bend Studies Occasional Papersn, Number 7)

Biographies & Memoirs

Keil, Robert

Community & Culture

Webster's Collegiate Dictionary defines bibliophile as "a lover of books," or "a book collector." As such, Bruce Glasrud and Arnoldo De León have approached and accomplished the task of compiling a thorough bibliography of secondary works on Tejano scholarship—defined as those academic works that have Texas as a focus, setting, or theme, and have Mexican-descent people as their subjects. The result is a much-needed reference tool useful to academicians and lay people alike.

Bibliophiling Tejano Scholarship: Secondary Sources on Hispanic Texas (Center for Big Bend Studies Occasional Papers)

León, Arnoldo De

When Hallie Crawford Stillwell died on August 18, 1997, she was two months and two days short of her 100th birthday. Hallie had published the first volume of her memoirs, I'll Gather My Geese, in 1991. In that volume she told the story of her life as a pioneer ranch woman and wife in the Big Bend country from the time of her marriage in 1918 to the death of her husband Roy Stillwell in 1948.

My Goose is Cooked: Continuation of a West Texas Ranch Woman's Story (Center for Big Bend Studies Occasional Papers)

Stillwell, Hallie

Betty Heath

Below the Escondido Rim details the evolution of a legendary Texas cattle ranch and the historic background in which it evolved. It is a story about dreams as big as the land itself, of hardship and success and failure, of long days in the saddle beneath a relentless sun, of booms and busts, boondoggles and burnouts, overextension and recoil. It is a story about trying to overcome adversity in an incredibly vast but difficult land.

Below The Escondido Rim: A History of the O2 Ranch in the Texas Big Bend

Keller, David W.

The Paradise Site : A Middle Archaic Campsite on the 02 Ranch , Presidio County, Texas (Papers of the Trans-Pecos Archaeological Program, No. 2)

Andrea J. Ohl

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