People come from far and wide to experience the Big Bend. The spellbinding desert mountain scenery, the wide vistas and deep canyon gorges, and the majestic mountain “islands” in the basin “seas,” all tend to build in the bloodstream, […]
Humans have populated the Big Bend for the past 10,000 years. The Spaniards arrived in 1535 when Cabeza de Vaca traveled through what is now Brewster County. By the close of the seventeenth century Mescalero-Apache, Kiowa, Comanche, and other nomadic Indians of the western plains of North America inhabited the […]
Toyah arrow points (see drawings) have long been recognized as very distinctive and common projectiles in archeological assemblages of the Trans-Pecos region. These small triangular points are characterized by triangular blades, two side notches anywhere […]
As the Museum of the Big Bend settles into its new quarters in Lawrence Hall, we are provided the opportunity to examine some of the objects in the collections
which have been part of permanent exhibits in […]
By Dorde Woodruff
The director of the Center for Big Bend Studies (CBBS), Bob Mallouf, was pleased to have a large turnout for the 9th Annual Conference on the History, Archaeology, and Culture of the Trans-Pecos, Big Bend and Northern Mexico.
Especially […]
The interview lasts 52 minutes and is a 47.7MB download.
The interview lasts 8 minutes and is a 1.89 MB download.
Travelers to West Texas have often marveled at the stunning beauty of the Chinati Mountains. But it’s unlikely many of them know […]
The interview lasts 5 minutes and is a 4.73MB download.
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David Keller interviewed May 30, 2019 for KRTS West Texas Talk
The interview lasts 48 minutes and is a 11.1 MB download.
Diana Nguyen talks to archaeologist David Keller about his latest book, In The Shadow Of The Chinatis: A History of Pinto […]
The interview lasts 5 minutes and is a 4.7MB download.
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