Window View in Big Bend Sparks Canyon Adventure
The guide extols a dramatic route from Casa Grande to Mount Emory and the Window overlooking a mesa in the Big Bend. From this vantage, silhouettes of the Del Carmen mountains in Mexico appear while canyons Santa Helena Mariscal and Boquillas unfold between Texas and Mexico. The piece urges a visit before development and notes plans for future Juniper forest cabins and park expansion.
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Texas
Mexico
Big Bend
Gcc
Big Bend National Park
Tillotson
Alpine
First Brewster County birth claim linked to William B Phelps
The article notes William Brister Phelps, son of Mr. and Mrs. William Phelps, as the first baby with a known birthdate in Brewster County after its 1887 organization, born September 18, 1887 in a lumber house at the site of the present Masonic hall, with later family ties to Alpine and San Antonio. It mentions prior claims about Brewster Hornbeck with uncertain dates and origins.
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Brister Phelps
Brewster County
William Brister Phelps
William Phelps
Masonic Hall
Mr. Phelps
San Antonio
Pink Phelps
Alpine
Brewster Hornbeck
E. B. Hornbeck
Pears
Hornbeeks
Elgin
Ilinois
Brewster
W. B
James William Phelps
Irate Chinaman and Ranger in Alpine Frontier Tale
Bass Outlaw, a Texas Ranger, confronts a Chinese cook named Jake in an Alpine eatery. In a drunken chase down the courthouse street, Outlaw flees as Jake pursues with a cutlass, ending with Outlaw escaping and Jake resuming cooking duties.
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Bass Outlaw
Alpine
Frontier
Jake
Celestial Empire
Southern Pacific Railway
Ranger
Outlaw
Bass
Ranger Outlaw
Birth of William Brister Phelps in Texas Town
William Brister Phelps born in Oakville Liveoak County Texas in 1889 and later moved to Al pine on July 1 1885.
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William Brister Phelps
Oakville
Liveoak County
Texas
Alpine
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Terling
Bend
Kansas City
Tam
Texas Ranger
A. M. Turney
Kan
Beene
Chisos Mon
Ares
CCC
Chisos Basin
Cross & Cross
Big Bend Park
Chevrolet
America
Buick
Pstiac
Comps Automobile
THE
Avalanche
Casner Motor CO
Pontiac
GMC
Wwalanche
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