[PDF] Death In Big Bend eBook

Author : Laurence Parent
Publisher : Laurence Parent Photography, Incorporated
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 30,20 MB
Release : 2010
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 9780974504872

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Most people visit Big Bend National Park and have a wonderful, incident-free vacation. For a tiny number, however, a simple mistake, unpreparedness, or pure bad luck has lead to catastrophe. Massive rescue efforts and fatalities, while rare, do happen at the park. Heat stroke, dehydration, hypothermia, drowning, falls, lightning, and even murder have claimed victims at Big Bend. This book chronicles selected rescues and tragedies that have happened there since the early 1980s. The lessons you learn reading this book may save your life.

Author : Peter Koch
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 46,70 MB
Release : 2009-02-17
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0292779879

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This collection of writings and images by the legendary Big Bend photographer offers adventure, history, personal musings, and natural beauty. Photographer-naturalist Peter Koch first visited Big Bend National Park in February, 1945, on assignment to take promotional pictures for the National Park Service. He planned to spend a couple of weeks, and ended up staying for the rest of his life. Koch’s magnificent photographs and documentary films introduced the park to people across the United States and remain an invaluable visual record of the first four decades of Big Bend National Park. In this book, Koch’s daughter June Cooper Price draws on her father’s photographs, newspaper columns, and journal entries, as well as short pieces by other family members, to present his vision and many experiences of the Big Bend. The adventure begins with a six-day photographic trip through Santa Elena Canyon on a raft made from agave flower stalks. Koch also describes hiking on mountain trails and driving the scenic loop around Fort Davis; “wax smuggling” and other ways of making a living on the Mexican border; ranching in the Big Bend; collaborating with botanist Barton Warnock; and the history and beauty of Presidio County, the Rio Grande, and the Chihuahuan Desert.

Author : Lee H. Whittlesey
Publisher : Roberts Rinehart
Page : 441 pages
File Size : 47,82 MB
Release : 2014-01-07
Category : Nature
ISBN : 1570984514

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The chilling tome that launched an entire genre of books about the often gruesome but always tragic ways people have died in our national parks, this updated edition of the classic includes calamities in Yellowstone from the past sixteen years, including the infamous grizzly bear attacks in the summer of 2011 as well as a fatal hot springs accident in 2000. In these accounts, written with sensitivity as cautionary tales about what to do and what not to do in one of our wildest national parks, Whittlesey recounts deaths ranging from tragedy to folly—from being caught in a freak avalanche to the goring of a photographer who just got a little too close to a bison. Armchair travelers and park visitors alike will be fascinated by this important book detailing the dangers awaiting in our first national park.

Author : Stefanie Payne
Publisher :
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 30,16 MB
Release : 2018-05
Category :
ISBN : 9780692926789

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On January 1 of 2016, Stefanie Payne, a creative professional working at NASA Headquarters, and Jonathan Irish, a photographer with National Geographic, left their lives in Washington, D.C. and hit the open road on an expedition to explore and document all 59 of America's national parks during the centennial celebration of the U.S. National Park Service - 59 parks in 52 weeks - the Greatest American Road Trip. Captured in more than 300,000 digital photographs, written stories, and videos shared by the national and international media, their project resulted in an incredible view of America's National Park System seen in its 100th year. 'A Year in the National Parks, The Greatest American Road Trip' is a gorgeous visual journey through our cherished public lands, detailing a rich tapestry of what makes each park special, as seen along an epic journey to visit them all within one special celebratory year.

Author : Elton Miles
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 27,88 MB
Release : 1987-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780890963609

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Miles evokes Indian, Mexican and Anglo traditions that converge in this area in this collection of tales. They cover supernatural phenomena such as the Marfa lights and water witching, murders, feuds, and lost treasures.

Author : Mike R. Wallace
Publisher : Outskirts Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 14,99 MB
Release : 2010-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781432753399

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Twenty-five year old James Cooper loses his heart to the two beautiful daughters of Anna Batlett when he rescues Jen from Indians and Leigh from Comancheros in the Big Bend Country in Southwestern Texas and Mexico. In 1875, Cooper takes time from his search for a traitorous wagon train guide, who led over one hundred settlers to their death years earlier, to bring the daughters back home. Cooper was given the name Deathwind by enemies of a tribe of Shoshoni from whom he learned how to survive in the West. Riding an Appaloosa stallion called Wind Chaser by the Shoshoni, Cooper continues his search for the wagon train guide while earning a hard and rattler quick reputation with a Colt .44 in the years of wandering. Cooper aids the Bartlett family by rescuing the two daughters from their kidnappers, and finds a family he did not know existed.

Author : Walter Fulcher
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 25,70 MB
Release : 2010-06-28
Category : History
ISBN : 0292789092

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The folklore of Texas' Big Bend region was still in the making during Walter Fulcher's lifetime. Born in Lampasas County in 1887, he worked on the Martin Ranch near Sheffield when a young man. There he witnessed events in the last outlaw activities of the Black Jack Ketchum gang. He also listened to legends told almost as gossip, and some of the legendary figures were still alive—or said to be alive, usually in hiding. In every village there was sure to be some ancient with a good memory and a better imagination, and Walter Fulcher heard many versions of many tales. He has set them down as he heard them, as simple folk tales that reflect the color of a wild and vivid country in 400 years of its settlement. The book has been edited, with introduction and notes, by Elton Miles, Professor of English at Sul Ross State College.