Farewell to the Last Frontier
For decades, Terlingua was a refuge for cowboys, wanderers, and weirdos. Now it’s an increasingly popular getaway for well-heeled urbanites.
For decades, Terlingua was a refuge for cowboys, wanderers, and weirdos. Now it’s an increasingly popular getaway for well-heeled urbanites.
For the past two years, Shawna Graves has wanted anonymity. Now she’s sharing her story publicly.
When several women spoke out against a powerful man in the former ghost town of Terlingua, the backlash was fierce.
Plus, a new art exhibit about the borderlands, a music compilation by many Texas artists, and Casa Colombia.
One man's adventure in margarita-making turns into a prickly affair.
The Starlight Theatre Restaurant & Saloon has been serving its cactus margarita for so long that no one can recall its exact origins.
Following a reduction in border violence, Mimi Webb Miller is back, taking travelers through the rugged canyons and tiny towns of northern Mexico.
After more than a decade of strict border enforcement, hundreds of residents on both sides of the US-Mexico border came together for the second annual Voices From Both Sides Festival to show what was lost when the border was closed.
A frontier town copes with a murder’s aftermath.
Glenn Felts, the owner of the well-known subterranean watering hole in the ghost town, was reportedly killed earlier this week.
You may go for the solitude, but in the stark expanses of far West Texas, you’ll still find plenty of friends.
South from Alpine to Study Butte, west to Presidio, north to Marfa, and east to Alpine.
Simple wooden crosses in Terlingua, carefully delineated stonework in Jefferson: Five great graveyards that run the gamut.
Old country and western in Mingus, zippy zydeco in Bridge City: The shows always go on at these ten tuneful spots.
John Wells on living off the grid.
After telecommunications tycoon Steve Smith bought the Big Bend town of Lajitas on a whim for $4.25 million, he spent perhaps $100 million more developing what was going to be a five-star, world-class getaway. The desert, however, had other ideas.