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    Big Bend

    National Park Texas

Park Newspaper

The park newspaper, The Paisano, is published by the National Park Service for the orientation and education of visitors to Big Bend National Park and the Rio Grande Wild & Scenic River. This visitor guide is in PDF format and requires Adobe Acrobat Reader for proper viewing and printing. For best results, download the file to your computer before viewing or printing.
 

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The Paisano [2.72 MB PDF]
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Did You Know?

Soldiers near Boquillas, 1941

In 1942 soldiers from Fort Bliss installed a machine-gun emplacement along the Rio Grande pointed at Boquillas, Mexico. This was done due to fears over border security and a possible Japanese invasion through Mexico.