Tales of Texas

Texas Big Bend

The Rio Grande and the Pecos River and the Texas, New Mexico state line are the boundaries for a chunk of big space that has been called the Big Bend of Texas. Fifty years ago, I was working on a ranch east of El Paso a hundred miles and a man showed up to buy the ranch. I toured him around the ranch for 2 days looking at 100,000 acres of dry expanse with some deer, some cattle, some…