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6 Table of Contents 4 24 Megan Wilde Why We Live Here or Dallas Baxter Editor’s notes 8 Erin Caro Aguayo Capturing Plants on Paper 10 Jim Glendinning Voices of the Big Bend Denise Chávez Texas Tacos Blair Pittman Dynamite Holding Contest – 1975 12 14 The Ultimate Western Luxury Lodging Experience! Life in Big Bend’s tiniest towns: Valentine, population, 187 16 Nora Seymour June Redford Van Cleef: 18 Bob Miles Descansos–Roadside Memorials 19 William Darby Roy Hamric Ken Whitley Poetry Charles Angell Trans-Pecos Trivia Capturing the Soul of the Texas Outback H ARVARD H OTEL & L ODGE O H.E. S PROUL R ANCH est. 1886 Fort Davis O 432.426.2500 O sproulranch.com Cenizo Second Quarter 2009 5