Remembered as the “Father of Prohibition”, Sheppard was the most influential Texas senator of the Great Depression and chaired the Senate Committee on Military Affairs until his death in office in 1941. Declassified documents reveal Sheppard as the true master planner of Big Bend and architect of the most ambitious and covert international public works project of the New Deal era.
(1875-1941)
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
The longest serving Secretary of Interior (1933-1946) and most influential of the 20th century, Ickes oversaw the National Park Service throughout the Roosevelt Administration. Previously classified State Department records document that Ickes supported the creation of both a national and international park in the Big Bend of Texas—even after the establishment of Big Bend National
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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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