Big Bend National Park place
also: Big Ben
Explore in graph → Export claims (CSV) ↓
Related entities (most co-mentioned)
Claims (0)
Mentions (2)
▶ 11:28
at large, goes way back, perhaps as early as the 1950s. In 1952, Michener bought his first property called La Jitas, a little hole in the wall on the Rio Grande, just west of Big Bend National Park in far west Texas. Now, he's from Houston.…
▶ 11:59
Michener started out with 26,000 acres and eventually bought the entire town. About the only living thing around the area in 1952 were a few ranchers, prospectors, and an occasional tourist or two. They would go up to Presidio or Big Ben, b…