Big Bend National Park A Winter Paradise and History
The piece paints Big Bend Texas as a winter haven with rugged mountains and sunlit deserts offering cabins, trails, and guided pack trips. It notes fossil seas, Conanche trails, Pancho Villa legends, and border tensions with wetbacks, plus a New York sculptor and a Mexican boy ferrying riders across the Rio Grande.
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Chisoc Mountains
Big Bend
Pancho Villa
Mexico
Jesse James
Rio Grande
Boquillas Canyon
New York
Big Bend notes on trails hot springs and cautionary tips
The writer recalls visiting the sun shrivel ed adobe village across the Mexico border and enjoying hot springs near Big Bend National Park. They warn of dangers from wandering off roads and faint-water desert hazards, recounting a couple lost in the sands with a fatal outcome and urging use of prepared trails and roads during winter resort season.
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Santa Elena
Boquillas Canyons
Winder
Big Bend
Daytona
Florida
Big Bend National Park
Cagers Split Twin Bill At Armstrong
Graettinger high school cagers finished their regular schedule with a win and a loss in a nonconference doubleheader at Armstrong Friday night. The Pirates led 13-9 after one, 31-17 at halftime, 49-30 after three quarters as they cruised to a 65-39 victory over the Tigers.
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Graettinger High School
Armstrong
Pirates
Tigers
Pirates roll to 65 39 win in balanced effort
Westfall 20 Norris 12 Schnell 11 Park 9 Corneilius 5 Kathman 4 Fade 2 Cornelius 2 led the Pirates scoring while Armstong paced the Pirettes with 19 11 19 and 33 for Hanson Rathman Gray Felkey. The Tigerettes pressed all game but fell short as the Pirates defended and stretched lead by halftime.
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Pirates
Pirate
Westfall
Norris
Schnell
Park
Larry Cornelius
Kathman
Fade
Leonard Cornelius
Pirettes
Armstrong
Mary Alice Hanson
Pat Rathman
Sharon Gray
Diane Felkey
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Texas
Nature
Mexica
Nonice
By Marj Vandervolde
Knite
Martin Baedke
Rover
Richard Herke
Orville Nicol
Roland Wikert
Hog Chow
G. O. Bonstead
Fatena
Jim Myers
Ina Lammers
Jake Jensen
Merle Jones
Ernest Duus
Leona Anderson
Ed Hurd
Maurice Jacobsen
Forrest Sipes
Joe Leonard
Ralph McCullah
Chas
C. W. Weir
Graettinger
E. Davis
Depew
Cylinder
Allis Chalmers
Bhultz
Gerald Boitnott
Bortint & Brown
Cylinder State Bank
Mexico Side
Hot Springs
Emmetsburg
Arnold J. Nielsen
Fenton
Iowa
T. B. & Bangs Federal
Minnesota
Sarge
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