TABLE OF CONTENTS Chapter 1: Creating a Border: The Cultural Landscape of the Big Bend Chapter 2: Saving the Last Frontier: Texas, Mexico, and the Big Bend National Park Initiative, 1930-1935 Chapter 3: First Impressions: A Critical Year of Park Planning, 1935 Chapter 4: A Dream in Waiting: Promotion of a Land Base for Big Bend National Park, 1936 Chapter 5: A Dream Delayed: Failure to Secure Public Funding for Big Bend National Park, 1937 Chapter 6: Keeping the Faith: The Struggle to Sustain Momentum for Big Bend National Park, 1938 Chapter 7: Clouds of War, Pleas for Help: The Big Bend Land-Acquisition Campaign, 1939 Chapter 8: A Brighter Day: Improved Prospects for Big Bend National Park, 1940 Chapter 9: "Doing Pioneer Work": The Civilian Conservation Corps and Facility Planning, 1936-1941 Chapter 10: A Different Frontier: Mexico, the United States, And the Dream of an International Park, 1935-1940 Chapter 11: Discovering Nature's Way: Scientific Research and Resource Protection, 1936 Chapter 12: Redrawing the Boundaries of Science: 1937-1944 Chapter 13: A Park at Last: Land Acquisition, Facilities Development, And Border Issues in Big Bend, 1940-1944 Chapter 14: Facilities and Operations At Texas's First National Park, 1944-1960 Chapter 15: Maintaining Big Bend: Operations, Planning, and Personnel Issues, 1960-2001 Chapter 16: "What a Beautiful Laboratory Big Bend Was!": Resource Protection and Management At Big Bend National Park, 1944-2000 Chapter 17: From Good Neighbors to Armed Camps: Mexico, the United States, and Big Bend National Park, 1944-1980 Chapter 18: Ghosts and Dreams: Big Bend and the Rio Grande, 1980-2001 Index (omitted from the on-line edition) LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS Figure 2. Conrad L. Wirth, Supervisor, Recreation, Land Planning, National Park Service, Santa Fe (date) Figure 3. Early Ranchers, Chisos Mountains (1933) Figure 4. CCC Quarters, Chisos Mountains Figure 5. Residence Area, Chisos Mountains (1956) Figure 6. Adobe and Stone Cottages Built by the CCC (1940-1941) Figure 7. Chisos Basin Store (late 1940s) Figure 8. Congressman Thomason, Chisos Mountains (1933) Figure 9. Chisos Basin "Dallas Huts" (late 1940s) (omitted from online edition) Figure 10. Chisos Basin Store and Gas Station Figure 11. Chisos Basin Service Station (c. 1950) Figure 12. Chisos Basin Store and Dining Room (c. 1950) Figure 13. Adobe Cottage #103, Chisos Basin Figure 14. "Dallas Hut" Guest Room, Chisos Basin (c. 1950) Figure 15. E. E. Townsend and W. B. Hamilton, Green Gulch (c. 1935) Figure 16. Superintendent Ross Maxwell, Leading a Geology Trip Figure 17. First Visitor Dining Facility, Chisos Basin Figure 18. Castolon Cotton Fields Figure 19. Rio Grand Village Store Figure 20. Chisos Mountain Lodge, Coffee Shop (1960s) Figure 21. Chisos Basin Store and Registration Office (1950s) Figure 22. NPCI Chisos Mountains Lodge Lobby (NPCI Photo, 1960s) Figure 23. NPCI Castolon Store (1961) Figure 24. Panther Junction Headquarters Area and Service Station (1958)
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