Big Bend not a park overnight

A bill calling for the creation of Texas Canyons State Park was introduced in the Lone Star legislature on Mar. 2, 1933, but national status for Big Bend would be a long time coming. The first shot in the battle for Big Bend was fired a half century earlier by an El Paso editor, who believed the “majestic scenery” of the rugged wonderland would “eclipse anything that has heretofore been produced…