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The Davis Mountains State Park Highway HE beauty of the Big Bend country is inexhaustible. In the past years the Brand has presented various phases of the lore and loveliness of the Southwest, but this issue is devoted to a new wealth of beauty—the Davis Mountains State Park Highway. This highway, which was established by an act of the Texas Legis¬ lature, is a seventy-five mile drive through the heart of the Texas Rockies. Beginning at the old military post at Fort Davis, it swings up the beautiful Limpia Canyon and thence proceeds across ranch lands of unusual rugged beauty. About twenty-five miles from Fort Davis one encounters groves of mountain pines, an unusual tree in this section. Passing alongside the slopes of Mount Livermore, the road proceeds to Rock Pile and doubles around Sawtooth Mountain and Mount Livermore, whence it turns back toward Fort Davis, pas¬ sing through the grounds of the Bloys Camp Meeting Association and joining the Marfa-Fort Davis road. The beauty of the route is rem arkable. At Rock Pile Ranch two heaps of immense boulders are piled upon one another as if by giants’ hands. Sawtooth Mountain, whose name suggests its appearance, is a formation of unusual grandeur, while Mount Livermore, with its altitude of 8 382 feet, is higher than any mountain located east of it in the United States. The wild life, likewise, is especially interesting. Deer and ante¬ lope play along the road; mountain lions sometimes scream from the rocks; and the black bear still prowls on the slopes of Mount Livermore. Historically, too, the route is of interest. Around the abandoned military post at Fort Davis clusters a wealth of history and tradition. Moreover, the highway follows in places an old army road used seventy years ago in transporting lumber from Mount Livermore. In other places it follows an old Indian trail more ancient than the dawn ol; history. Indian pictographs are to be found at Rock Pile and in Fort Davis Cave on the Marfa-Fort Davis road. Interesting, too, is the Bloys Encampment with its hallowed memories of frontier revivals. The views section of the Brand presents typical scenes along the highway, with pictures of Sawtooth, Livermore, and Rock Pile. Snap¬ shots of animals and of range life along the old trail are included. The map in the end-section was drawn from observation with the assistance of another map lent by the Brewster County Chamber of Commerce. Important information about the highway was graciously furnished by Mr. Barry Scobee of Fort Davis and by Mrs. Mody C. Boatright. Page 2
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