1940s photographs of the Big Bend
1940s photographs of the Big BendColor photographs of Big Bend National Park taken in the 1940s.
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Did You Know?
As planning progressed for the new Big Bend National Park in the early 1940s, one prominent proposal called for the development of a dude ranch in the new park. Occupying as much as 200,000 acres, the ranch would have featured longhorn cattle. Objections by biologists helped eliminate the idea. More...