Weekly newspaper from Alpine, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.

Weekly newspaper from Alpine, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.

Weekly newspaper from Alpine, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.

Weekly newspaper from Alpine, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.

Weekly newspaper from Alpine, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.

Weekly newspaper from Alpine, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.

Weekly newspaper from Alpine, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.

Weekly newspaper from Alpine, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.

Weekly newspaper from Alpine, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about the violent thunderstorms that lashed South Texas have now moved out of the state but patches of dense fog are making driving extremely hazards at scattered points.

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about another hot day which appears to be shaping up for Texas despite a new cool front that has edged into the Panhandle.

Weekly newspaper from Alpine, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.

Weekly newspaper from Alpine, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.

Weekly newspaper from Alpine, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.

Application materials submitted to the Texas Historical Commission requesting a historic marker for the W. W. Townsend Home, in Alpine, Texas. The materials include the inscription text of the marker, original application, narrative, and photographs.

Parent map for Jeff Davis County, Texas showing the area of one geographic block for which the U.S. Census Bureau collected data. The plotted map scale is 1:25,000.

Texas Historical Commision Marker Located in the Terlingua, TX Cemetery. Text reads: "Villalba family tradition traces their lineage to Algiers where several generations were members of the Order of Santiago. In 1764, Federico's great-grandfather, Juan Villalba, traveled to New Spain (Mexico). He founded Rancho Villalba in 1773 near present-day Aldama, Chihuahua, where Federico Villalba was born in 1858. Federico left his family's ranch and moved to San Carlos near the U.S.-Mexico border. He set up a store, selling rope, leather goods and sundries; it soon became important in San Carlos, and eventually supplied the military in the area. In the early 1880s, Villalba expanded his business interests into Texas. He settled in an area he called Cerro Villalba and opened a store. In 1889, Federico married Maria Cortez and began purchasing land. In 1902, Villalba located an outcrop of cinnabar, a mineral that produces mercury, and became the first Hispanic in the county to file a mining claim. Villalba, Tiburcio de la Rosa, D. Alarcon, and William study entered into a partnership that covered six parcels of twenty-one acres each, including what became known as the study butte mine. The Associated Mining Community took on the mine's name (Study Butte), …

Grave in Terlingua Cemetery. Marker reads: "GONZO Mark J. Lemke Arrived: 1/5/56 Departed: 5/14/07 Live Life Large" Memorialized with buddah statues, prayer flags, flowers, an oar, assorted broken pottery.

Above ground stone memorial of David Tinsley 1938-2014. Gravesite is adorned with chickens; cross appears to be constructed from airplane propellers which reads "BOSSBIRD" on the vertical axis.

Graves in Terlingua Cemetery.

Graves marked with wooden crosses in Terlingua Cemetery.

Wooden Crosses and stacked stones on grave - Terlingua Cemetery

Photograph of a goat pen located on the north side of Highway 170 in Lajitas, TX near Big Bend National Park and Big Bend Ranch State Park. A sign reads: "World Famous Clay Henry Mayor of Lajitas." Clay Henry IV is visible in the foreground while an unidentified companion goat can be observed in the background.

Weekly newspaper from Alpine, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.