The vast resources of big bend include numerous opportunities to tell a complex human history. Use these resources with your students to explore Big Bend's complicated past.
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Castolon: A Meeting Place of Two Cultures [10 Mb PDF file]
Compare the Spanish and Anglo influences on settlements along the Texas-Mexico border region of the Rio Grande.
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Did You Know?
In 1535, prior to settlement, the Spanish adventurer Alvar Nuñez Cabeza de Vaca is credited with being the first European to visit the Big Bend Country. The Spanish had a name for such an area - despoblado, or unpopulated land.
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