C e n izo J o urna l
Volume 10 Number 3
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Dennis Baker, like many others, has developed
a great love of the Big Bend country over the
years. Back in the early 1970’s he worked for a
train derailment service extensively between Del
Rio and El Paso on the Southern Pacific Line
(now Union Pacific). He has been making trips
back to the area as often as possible ever since.
e-mail: zunidgb@gmail.com
Rani Birchfield is a writer at large in the Big
Bend region. Born in Kathmandu, she inherited
the wanderlust of her parents and loves travel,
food and wine exploration, and meeting odd
folks of the planet. Have a story to tell or a hot
tip? e-mail:aed@cenizojournal.com
Howdy-Nocona Fowler was born and raised on
the Klamath Indian Reservation in SE Oregon.
He has contributed to The Rocky Mountain
News, Western Horseman, Mules and More and
Cowboy Magazine. e-mail: BurroBill@yahoo.com
Danielle Gallo is a writer who is proud to be
the editor-in-chief of the Cenizo Journal. She
came to the area in 2002 and currently lives in
Marathon with her family. e-mail: editor@
cenizojournal.com
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William MacLeod was a Scot who made his
way to the Big Bend via Houston. A geologist
by trade, he wrote a series of books for amateurs
and professionals alike on the Big Bend area and
its fascinating geology. e-mail: www.texasgeolog-
icalpress.com
C. W. (Bill) Smith is a writer, historian and
curator of the Terrell County Memorial
Museum. e-mail: wsmith1948@yahoo.com
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Shawna Graves had a hot spell cast upon her by
the Chihuahuan Desert a long time ago.
She has been wandering, sometimes lost, in its
vast escapes since 2013, studying people,
plants, critters, and science in remote
outposts under twinkling stars.
e-mail:
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Cenizo
Third Quarter 2018
Matt Walter is the Curator of Collections for
the Museum of the Big Bend in Alpine. He is
also a Lecturer in History at Sul Ross State uni-
versity. e-mail: mwalter@sulross.edu
Carolyn Brown Zniewski started her
publishing career at age nine, publishing a one-
page neighborhood newsletter called The Circle.
From 1992 – 2006 she wrote a recipe column
for two neighborhood newspapers in
Minneapolis, MN. In 2013, she started
publishing the Cenizo. e-mail: publisher@cenizo-
journal.com
Maya Brown Zniewski is an herbalist and
soapmaker who enjoys frequent visits to the
Big Bend area. Her handmade salves, soaps
and
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Copy editor: Rani Birchfield
Correction: Our apologies to Jeremy Gonzalez
for crediting his story in the January, 2018 issue,
The Mystical Horned Lizard, to Jeremy Garcia.
Cover: Our cover this time calls for some expla-
nation. This is where stars are made, right here
in our galaxy! The photographer, Coyne
Gibson, has this to say: This is M20, or Messier
20, also known as the Trifid Nebula. The cata-
log number is NGC 6514. The image was
acquired during an observing run in March of
2015 using the 0.8-meter, or 30-inch telescope
at McDonald Observatory. The 0.8m system is
a prime-focus telescope with a field of view of
46.5-arcminutes square (about 1/2-degree).
M20 is an H II region - a huge cloud of ionized
hydrogen gas, in which star formation as taken
place. M20 is located in Sagittarius, toward the
galactic center of our Milky Way galaxy. It was
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