On Feb. 6, 2018, the Archives of the Big Bend hosted Dr. Jenn McCormack’s Geography of Texas class. The Archives was chosen as one of the six locations students will visit for their Field Site Analysis assignments. 13 students in the class were able to learn about the holdings of the Archives, the types of [...]
In late January, 1918, Captain J.M. Fox of Texas Rangers Company B ordered Ranger Bud Weaver to investigate the tiny border town of Porvenir, Texas after the Brite Ranch Raid. Over 1500 dollars worth of merchandise from the Brite Ranch store and three people on the arriving mail coach were killed during the raid. Porvenir [...]
The Archives is pleased to announce its latest digitization initiative- The Brand Yearbooks . These will be found under our Webpage Digital Collections . To commemorate the Centennial Anniversary of the school, we hope to have all the early Brands scanned and available online. We also will soon be getting Commencement Programs up as well. Physical copies of [...]
Did you know that the Marfa Lights are not the only mystery unexplained by history and science in the Big Bend area? Chances are you are already familiar about the strange lights that have been seen around Marfa since the late 1800s. What about the Big Bend Tablet? For some reason, this story is known [...]
Did you know that the Sul Ross Library did not receive its own building until 1969? Before then, it was found in two separate places. When Sul Ross Normal College opened its doors in 1920, the entire school was in one building, what is now known as Briscoe Administration Building, then known simply as the [...]
Photograph by James Evans Hallie Crawford Stillwell was born in Waco, Texas on October 20, 1897 to Scots-Irish-English parents Guy and Nancy Crawford. She was the third of six children. Her father described her as “always searching out new pastures”, which would describe her life very well. In 1910 the family moved to Alpine, Texas [...]
The Archives holds the Papers of D.A.T. Walton, b. 1837-1915. Walton was a Texas Ranger, Confederate Captain, Sheriff of Bee County for 19 years, and Sheriff/Tax Collector of Brewster County for 8 years. His collection includes correspondence, photographs, scrapbooks, legal documents, and other materials. Of interest are his Civil War correspondence with his family members [...]
Summer is breezing by, y'all. Last week in the mail, we received paperwork from the Texas Archive of the Moving Image reminding us about all of the great videotape and film they took back to Austin back at the beginning of July to digitize for us as part of the Texas Film Round-Up. The Archives [...]
Journals and coursework notebooks from one of Sul Ross State University’s first students were donated to the Archives of the Big Bend Thursday (April 27). The John Welborn McKay Collection was presented by Sul Ross Distinguished Alumnus, E. Julius Dasch, his wife Pat, and Dr. George Bradley, retired Sul Ross Professor of Communication and [...]
