The following visual bibliography is just a sampling of the handbooks and books which have been published for this park. NPSHistory.com does not endorse these, but are merely presenting them for informational purposes only. As most are copyrighted, we are only able to provide the covers, and not contents, of these publications.

Plants of Big Bend National Park W.B. McDougall and Omer E. Sperry 1951, 1957 reprint	cover only Big Bend National Park W. Ray Scott 1961	The Big Bend: A History of the Last Texas Frontier Ronnie C. Tyler 1975	cover only Big Bend: A Homesteader's Story J.O. Langford with Fred Gipson 1981
cover only Handbook #119 1983	cover only Handbook #128 1984	cover only Big Bend Country Ross A. Maxwell 1985	cover only A Most Singular Country: A History of Occupation in the Big Bend Arthur R. Gomez 1990
cover only The Story of Big Bend National Park John Jameson 1996	cover only Big Bend: The Story Behind the Scenery Carol E. Sperling 1996	cover only Big Bend Country: Land of the Unexpected Kenneth Baxter Ragsdale 1998	cover only Lizards on the Mantel, Burros at the Door: A Big Bend Memoir Etta Koch with June Cooper Price 1999
cover only Big Bend National Park Impressions Steve Guynes 2004	cover only Big Bend National Park Joe Nick Patoski and Laurence Parent 2006	cover only Exploring the Big Bend Country Peter Koch and June Cooper Price 2007	cover only Little Big Bend Roy Morey 2008
cover only Enjoying Big Bend National Park Gary Clark 2009	cover only Big Bend: The Story Behind the Scenery Carol E. Sperling 2009	cover only Death in Big Bend Laurence Parent 2010	cover only Great Walks of Big Bend Robert Gilmore 2010
cover only Paisanos Past 2011	cover only Hiking Big Bend National Park Laurence Parent 2015	cover only Nature Watch Big Bend: A Seasonal Guide Lynne M. Weber and Jim Weber 2017	cover only Beneath the Window: Early Ranch Life in the Big Bend Before it was a National Park Patricia Wilson Clothier 2017
cover only Yonderings: Trails and Memories of the Big Bend Ben H. English 2017	cover only Big Bend Vistas: A Geological Exploration of the Big Bend William MacLeod 2017	cover only The Whole Damn Cheese: Maggie Smith, Border Legend Bill Wright 2018	cover only The Big Bend Guide Allan C. Kimball 2019
cover only Big Bend National Park: Mexico, the United States, and a Borderland Ecosystem Michael Welsh 2021