Quicksilver: Terlingua and the Chisos Mining Company

by Kenneth Baxter Ragsdale

Book Overview

This is the fascinating story of Howard E. Perry and his Terlingua fiefdom on the edge of Big Bend National Park. Ragsdale's Quicksilver: Terlingua and the Chisos Mining Company is perhaps the best book written on the Big Bend country.--William H. Goetzmann

Before Terlingua achieved some notoriety as the site of the annual World Championship Chili Cookoff, the ghost town was the bustling center of the mercury...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0890961883
• ISBN13: 9780890961889
• Release Date: January 1984
• Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
• Length: 366 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.9" x 8.9"