Terlingua Mining District

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Chisos Mine and Terlingua

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Early Human Habitation

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Marathon Snapshots

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US Army Camel Experiment

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Camp Pena Colorado

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LAJITAS HISTORY

Lajitas is on the western edge of Big Bend National Park in southwestern Brewster County. It is at an altitude of 2,200 feet on a bluff overlooking the Rio Grande at the San Carlos ford of the old Comanche Trail, in the northern part of the Chihuahuan Desert and at the southern extreme of the Rocky Mountains.

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HISTORICAL OVERVIEW

A brief overview of Big Bend History Big Bend History Tracks across the centuries trail back thousands of years when the first Native Americans arrived in the Big Bend.

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MARATHON HISTORY

Brief History of Marathon Texas Marathon  is located in a broad basin between the Glass Mountains to the north and the Del Norte-Santiago range to the south. This area is a transition zone between the higher mountain grasslands and the thorny chaparral of the Chihuahuan Desert, as well as a remarkable fusion of "old" and "new" mountains.

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MEXICO

Important information about travelling to Mexico As one old timer told a dewy-eyed tourist upon his first glimpse of the Rio Grande, "Boy, when you cross that river, you're in another country".

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6 IMPORTANT TIPS FOR VISITING THE BIG BEND

he Big Bend is a remote region of West Texas that includes over one million acres of public land, Big Bend National Park, Big Bend Ranch State Park, and offers many activities, from camping and river rafting to horseback riding and off-road vehicle tours.

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Geology

Driving south out of Alpine, Marathon, Marfa, you can't help but notice geology. Even the name Big Bend is a geologic description

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Drive from Houston

Fastest way to drive to  Big Bend from Houston is take I-10 about 200 mi. to San Antonio, and either continue I-10 about 315 mi. to Fort Stockton, or you can take US 90 from San Antonio about 160 mi.

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