Before and After Photos of Settings in My Books about Big Bend

Remains of ledgestones used in dugout home of

the Clemente Mena Family on Tornillo Creek

(Photo courtesy of Louis Albach)



Map of Mena Family Home 1908

 



Map of eastern Big Bend on the Rio Grande



 



Glenn Springs candella wax factory owned

by J. D. Woods circa 1920s and 1930s

Glenn Springs home circa 1926 with Ivalee Bales,

Mary Susan Landrum, and W. D. Smithers sending carrier pigeons

to San Antonio paper with the latest news and photos from the Big Bend:

Notice cottonwood tree in the background. Compare it to the next photo.

2012 view of Glenn Springs home with only

cottonwood tree trunk remaining

(Photo by Tom Webb)

Troops 6th Cavalry, Glenn Springs, TX

 

Glenn Springs in 1918

2012 view of creek below Glenn Springs

(Photo by Tom Webb)

 

Building in Glenn Springs in which shoot-out between U.S. troops and bandits occurred.

Later it became the Glenn Springs School.

Glenn Springs School
 Ivalee Bales, teacher and Mary Susan Landrum

wearing cloche hat among the other students circa 1910 - 1920

(Notice bullet holes in wall from the shoot-out mentioned above.)

Santa Elena Canyon