In the Shadow of the Chinatis: A History of Pinto Canyon in the Big Bend

by David W. Keller

Book Overview

Winner, 2020 Al Lowman Memorial Prize for Best Book on Texas County or Local History

There is a deep and abiding connection between humans and the land in Pinto Canyon--a remote and rugged place near the border with Mexico in the Texas Big Bend. Here the land assumes a certain primacy, defined not by the ephemera of plants and animals but by the very bedrock that rises far above the silvery flow of Pinto Creek-- looming masses that break the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1623499607
• ISBN13: 9781623499600
• Release Date: January 2023
• Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.2"