• Sierra del Carmen

    Big Bend

    National Park Texas

Peregrine closures for 2011

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Date: January 31, 2011

Press release

Did You Know?

Mexican family living at Glenn Springs, 1916

The population of the Big Bend prior to the establishment of the National Park in 1944 was approximately 155 people, evenly divided between hispanics and anglos. Most of the hispanic families lived along the river and practiced subsistence farming; the anglo families were mostly ranchers. More...