Sul Ross State University - Brand Yearbook (Alpine, TX)

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Goat Herds on the Road to Terlingua W HERE the road winds across the desert between Alpine and Terlingua, great herds of goats feed upon the scanty desert herb¬ age. A picturesque goat-herder, his dog, and a patient burro, follow placidly after the browsing flock. Black or white, gray or dun, pied or mottled, they trustingly follow their bell-ringing leaders across the road into the newer, untouched pastures. This road, now used daily by speeding auto¬ mobiles and slow-moving freighters, was once the scene of Chief Alsate’s retreat into the Chisos Mountains, when, like ghosts of days gone by, the old leader and his wearied band of Apaches hid from the steady advance of ap¬ proaching civilization. And somewhere near here, in 1684, Mendoza passed. He saw great fires burning in the valley where Alpine now stands; accordingly he named this place San Lorenzo, in memory of that Saint Lorenzo who died a victim to similar flames. At Terlingua—whose name signifies in Spanish the place of the three tongues—there are busy quicksilver mines, where many Mexicans are em¬ ployed. Indolent, sleepy burros, laden with panniers of wood, or earthen water-bottles, plod tranquilly down streets whose atmosphere of a hundred years ago pervades the whole place, giving to a twentieth-century visitor, a pleasing vision of more peaceful days and ways. Page 24

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