Legendary Locals of the Big Bend and Davis Mountains, Texas

by Jim Glendinning

Book Overview

"Home of the Last Frontier" is how the local radio station aptly describes the Big Bend and Davis Mountains region of West Texas, the sparsely populated area of desert and mountain close to the Mexican border. After 1848, the first settlers started to move in. They came to make a living, and a few made a fortune. Mysterious cattle baron Milton Faver ran 10,000 cattle in the 1870s. Others came for their health, like J.O. Langford, his wife, and young...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1467100544
• ISBN13: 9781467100540
• Release Date: July 2013
• Publisher: Arcadia Publishing (SC)
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 1.08 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.5" x 9.1"