Two Trail-Driving Women
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.
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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.
Read MoreAvisadores: Big Bend’s Messengers of Light
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…
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The Mighty Mites
A little band of orphans ran through Texas high school football rivals like a bunch of field mice
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