![]() ![]() is the story of a way of life, beautiful in its simplicity, a story that can be read again and again for it is a book of substance.” -New York Herald Tribune “Not a big book this, but as warming to the senses and to the heart as a mesquite fire on the open hearth. Langford’s account is told with the help of Fred Gipson, author of Old Yeller and Hound Dog Man. ![]() Big Bend is the story of the Langfords’ life in the rugged and spectacularly beautiful country which they came to call their own. High on a bluff overlooking the spot where Tornillo Creek pours its waters into the turbulent Rio Grande, the Langfords built their home, a rude structure of adobe blocks in a land reputed to be inhabited only by bandits and rattlesnakes. ![]() Langford came in 1909 with his wife and daughter in search of health and a home. To the wild and fabulous country where the Rio Grande makes its big bend, J. A first-hand account of a chronically ill man who uproots his family to settle on the banks of the Rio Grande, written with the author of Old Yeller. ![]()
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