A mysterious figure in Texas history, Dorgan is remembered for little more than the ruins of his unique adobe home preserved within Big Bend National Park. Recently discovered military records, maps and previously classified documents reveal Dorgan as a WWI naval aviator, inventor, landscape architect, regional planner—and the first man to propose development of an international park the Big Bend district of Texas.
(1887-1985)
A former federal judge and mayor of El Paso, Thomason wrote the enabling legislation for Big Bend National Park (1935) and was Vice Chairman of the House Committee on Military Affairs. He also pursued the creation of dams and a military border highway along the Rio Grande that would serve as the infrastructure for
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Representing Texas in both the House of Representatives and Senate from 1917 to 1953, Connally chaired the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations and was instrumental in creating the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). While remembered as a master of foreign relations, his campaign to develop an international park in Big Bend is virtually unknown. (1877-1963)
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