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Thousands of years ago, Panhandle flint quarries were a center of prehistoric tool production.

Imagine Austin, a dusty frontier town on the north bank of the Colorado River in 1876, when the state fathers decided to erect a government building modeled on the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C. At completion, it would rise 15 feet taller than the original. The granite superstructure would dwarf the one- and two-story buildings…

An East Coast society woman and a motherly rancher’s wife were the first two white women to have anything to do with ranching in the wild and formidable Palo Duro Canyon of Texas.

In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, as the Victorian Era was being laid to rest, a few feminists began pushing for societal rights that had long been denied them. Many western women had already cast off strictures that seemed irrelevant to their lives.

When I’m lucky enough to be in the Big Bend region, I sometimes think I catch a flash of light out of the corner of my eye. It could be anything: imagination, a glint off the corner of my glasses or something else. Put me in another landscape, and I might not even notice or…