Presidio Officials Worried About a New Trade Route for Truckers. Locals Saw an Opportunity.
With an obscure change in Mexican trade policy, the cash-strapped border town started seeing more visitors.
Presidio
Country Notes
June 17, 2021
A Forgotten Burial Site in Presidio Tells the Story of a Disappearing Border History
A small group fights to save a cemetery and what remains of a Lipan Apache existence in the Big Bend.
Country Notes
September 18, 2019
Long Live the ‘Big Bend Sentinel.’ Viva ‘El Internacional.’
Small-town papers often serve as bearers of civic pride. But the former owners of Marfa’s Big Bend Sentinel and Presidio’s International learned long ago that writing the news meant looking out for their neighbors.
Border & Immigration
July 23, 2019
The Other Side of the Border
Frustrated by the perception of the border as a lawless land, two native sons embarked on a 1,200-mile journey to capture, through a series of images and letters, the region’s untold stories.
News & Politics
June 25, 2019
Why Does Presidio Have One of the Best High School Rocketry Clubs in the Country?
The West Texas border town of Presidio is one of the poorest places in the state. So why does it have one of the best high school rocketry clubs in the country?
Texana
November 20, 1977
The Last Frontier
The pioneers who came to tame the West met their match in the land of ‘Giant.’
Travel & Outdoors
April 30, 1973
Copper Canyon Spectacular
Over the Sierras to Topolobampo and back by the headiest of Mexican railroads.