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 a Big Bend International Peace Park.
(1879-1973)
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
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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
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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