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Trappings of Texas a must for Western art enthusiasts

Director, Museum of the Big Bend A contemporary Southwestern pendant and necklace featuring Kingman turquoise, hand carved buffalo bone and hematite bead necklace. A set of Longhorns wrapped in full flower carved leather accented with a mane hair mecate, a collaborative work by father and son.
Trappings of Texas a must for Western art enthusiasts

Watch for this sleek desert beauty

The Phainopepla is surely among the most beautiful and graceful of all birds in the Trans Pecos. The male is sleek and shiny black with a long tail and a ragged crest that is often raised, and when he flies he shows bright white patches on his rounded wings.
A male Phainopepla, a member of the silky flycatcher family.

Gun and knife show at Gallego Center

A good crowd streamed into the Pete P. Gallego Center on the Sul Ross State University campus for the annual Lions Club gun and knife show. Held on Labor Day weekend each year, it is the club’s major effort to fund its charitable activities in the community.
Gun and knife show at Gallego Center
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