The Llano Estacado, or "Staked Plain," of Texas and eastern New Mexico spreads two hundred miles across what early visitors called "an ocean of land." No other place on Earth is quite like it.
Every new generation performed its duty at this cultural crossroads, from the trade routes established by the comancheros to the fateful meeti.
Subsequently, settlers came to convert the grassland to ranches and then to sprawling farms.
Humans first inhabited the area more than twelve thousand years ago.
The Llano Estacado, or "Staked Plain," of Texas and eastern New Mexico spreads two hundred miles across what early visitors called "an ocean of land." No other place on Earth is quite like it