Named for the yellow clay of nearby Lake Meredith (amarillo is Spanish for “yellow”), Amarillo began as a railroad construction camp in 1887 and ultimately evolved into a Texas-size truck stop. After ...more
The arid Chihuahuan Desert, lofty Chisos Mountains, and muddy Rio Grande unite in a marriage of land, air, and water to form Big Bend National Park, one of Texas’s most remote and wild natural areas ...more
Situated near the Chihuahuan Desert and alongside the Rio Grande is a geological and cultural oasis called Del Rio. A fine little American town in its own right, Del Rio is also a model for internationalism ...more
El Paso, the largest US border town, boomed in the 17th century as a stopover on the east-west wagon route that followed the Rio Grande through “el paso” (the pass) between the Rocky Mountains and ...more
Rising austerely above the parched West Texas desert, these peaks are the highest, most remote of the West Texas ranges. Mescalero Apaches hunted and camped on these lands until they were driven out ...more
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