A Star is Born on Sul Ross Theater Stage As part of the 2018 Sul Ross Home Coming Office and Door Decorating Contest, the Archives of the Big Bend has adorned its doors with a collage featuring Sul Ross alumni and Bonanza actor Dan Blocker. All images featured in the collage are found in the [...]
The J.J. Kilpatrick Family Candelaria Papers, held by the Archives of the Big Bend, are comprised of documents related to the Kilpatrick and Howard families of Candelaria, Presidio County. Mary Macon Howard (Kilpatrick) was the first Kilpatrick resident of Candelaria when she moved there to teach in the one-room schoolhouse shortly after the turn of [...]
The Archives of the Big Bend recently cataloged the Earl Fallis Photographic Collection. You can do a Webcat Search for "Earl Fallis". Limit search to "Archives"and click on the "Catalog Record" tab to get the full description. The album is comprised of photographs related the Big Bend Border Patrol as well as family and friends recreation photos, [...]
The personal correspondence in one of the Archives's most valuable collections, The Clifford B. Casey Collection, has recently been processed. A subset of Dr. Casey's personal correspondence is his Sul Ross Correspondence, 1931-1973, which primarily documents memos, policies, and correspondence he received while he taught at Sul Ross from 1931-1960. Dr. Casey was still very [...]
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 [...]
