For almost three hundred miles, the Pecos River cuts across far West Texas.
They came and they stayed because the land held one overriding appeal: it was Texas\' Last fro.
Yet they came--army posts like Fort Stockton to challenge the Apaches\' claim to the rugged land, settlers to supply the posts, cattlemen to eke out a living from the vast but sparse grazing ranges.
It is an arid land, a land that in the Last century offered danger and hardship to those who crossed it and those who settled it.
For almost three hundred miles, the Pecos River cuts across far West Texas