• Sierra del Carmen

    Big Bend

    National Park Texas

1940s photographs of the Big Bend

Did You Know?

Longhorn in repose

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...