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Big Bend National Park Pictures

Mouth of the Santa Elena Canyon and the Rio Grande with reflection in water.
National Park Service Historic Photograph Collection
Mouth of the Santa Elena Canyon and the Rio Grande with reflection in water.
Approximate Year: 1944
Photographer: Dodge, Natt N.

Other Historic Photos

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The Tornillo Creek Bridge, constructed under the NPS Mission 66 program, at times seems to cross a dry river, with certainly no water in sight. But sudden rains, common to the area, are capable of turning a dry bed into a raging torrent. Mouth of the Santa Elena Canyon and the Rio Grande with reflection in water. Boquillas Village, on the Old Mexico side of the Rio Grande, provides a picturesque subject for a visitor's camera when photographed from a high point in Big Bend.
Girls on bluff overlooking Rio Grande near Boquillas. Sierra del Carmens of Mexico in background. A view of the Chisos Basin campground. Here, ramadas with tables and charcoal broilers, sanitary facilities, and campsites for tent and trailer are available without cost. A Mission 66 improvement. View from the South Rim, looking south toward the Rio Grande.
Fossil oyster, over four feet long, found in Texas, near Hot Springs and San Vicente. Part of the quicksilver mining town Terlingua, Texas.

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