Armchair Explorations

Selected books, maps, guides, and other publications are offered for sale at the park or through the mail by the Big Bend Natural History Association, Big Bend National Park, Texas 79834. Please write and ask for a free list.

Casey, Clifford B. Mirages, Mysteries and Reality, Brewster County, Texas, The Big Bend of the Rio Grande. Pioneer Book Publishers, 1972. Deckert, Frank. Big Bend: Three Steps to the Sky. Big Bend Natural History Association, 1981. Langford, J.O. with Fred Gipson. Big Bend, A Homesteader’s Story. University of Texas Press, 1973. Larson, Peggy. The Deserts of the Southwest. Sierra Club Books, 1977. Madison, Virginia. The Big Bend Country of Texas (Revised edition). October House Inc., 1968. Maxwell, Ross A. The Big Bend of the Rio Grande. Guidebook 7. Texas Bureau of Economic Geology, 1968. Sonnichsen, C.L. The Mescalero Apaches (Second edition). University of Oklahoma Press, 1973. Tyler, Ronnie C. The Big Bend: A History of the Last Texas Frontier. National Park Service, 1975. Warnock, Barton H. Wildflowers of the Big Bend Country, Texas. Sul Ross State University, 1970. Wauer, Roland H. Naturalists’ Big Bend. Texas A&M Press, 1980.