Chronicles of the Big Bend – A Photographic Memoir of Life on the Border

Chronicles of the Big BendA Photographic Memoir of Life on the Border\nAuthor(s): W. D. Smithers, Kenneth Baxter Ragsdale\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Texas State Historical Association,U.S., United States\nImprint: Texas State Historical Association,U.S.\nISBN-13: 9780876112618, 978-0876112618\nSynopsis\nAs a young teamster on a pack-mule train, Wilfred Dudley Smithers saw the Rio Grande's Big Bend for the first time in 1916, and it captured his imagination forever. For decades thereafter he returned to Texas' last great frontierthe great bend of the Rio Grande on the Texas-Mexico borderchronicling the region and its people in words and photographs.\n\nAfter half a century of photography, Smithers' superlative collection of nine thousand images ended up at the University of Texas at Austin, and in 1976 more than one hundred of these were reproduced in Chronicles of the Big Bend, a critically acclaimed work that until now has long been out of print. \n\nThe years that Smithers chro.