Photographer-naturalist Peter Koch first visited the new Big Bend
National Park in February, 1945, on assignment to take promotional
pictures for the National Park Service. He planned to spend a
couple of weeks--and ended up staying for the rest of his life.
Koch's magnificent photographs and documentary film-lectures Big
Bend, Life in a Desert Wilderness and Desert Gold introduced the
park to people across the United States, drawing thousands of
visitors to the Big Bend. His photographs and films of the region
remain among the best ever produced, and are an invaluable visual
record of the first four decades of Big Bend National Park.
In this highly readable book, Koch's daughter June Cooper Price
draws on the newspaper columns her father wrote for the Alpine
Avalanche, supplemented by his photographs, journal entries, and
short pieces by other family members, to present Peter Koch's
vision of the Big Bend. The book opens with his first "big
adventure," a six-day photographic trip through Santa Elena Canyon
on a raft made from agave flower stalks. From there, Koch takes
readers hiking on mountain trails and driving the scenic loop
around Fort Davis. He also describes "wax smuggling" and other ways
of making a living on the Mexican border; ranching in the Big Bend;
the prehistory and Native Americans of the region; collaborating
with botanist Barton Warnock on books of Trans-Pecos wildflowers;
and the history and beauty of Presidio County, the Rio Grande, and
the Chihuahuan Desert.
This fascinating blend of firsthand adventures, natural history,
and personal musings on anthropology and history creates an
unforgettable portrait of both Peter Koch and the Big Bend region
he soloved.
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