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...early 1980s, David made his own move into the wild. For a pittance he bought a 30-acre spread at Terlingua Ranch, a grandly named stretch of bare-bones, no-nonsense privacy among the mesquite and greasewood of the Chihuahuan desert, where lizards and diamondback rattlers are the nearest neighbors. To a few friends, he was even known jokingly as "Henry David"--as in Henry David Thoreau, the literary patron saint of nature lovers and solitary souls. He took a passionate stand against paving the two-lane road into Terlingua Ranch. "We both worried about the destruction of mankind from...
...David revered his brother's commitment to a full-time wilderness existence. Because his cabin has no running water, David sometimes showered at a bunkhouse maintained by Terlingua Ranch. It was there that in 1983 he met Juan Sanchez, a Mexican farmhand who sometimes did maintenance work at the estates. David helped him secure a green card and urged him to write to his brother in Montana, who he suggested might be able to offer him advice on his immigration problems. That led to a seven-year correspondence. From November 1988 to November 1995, Ted wrote to Sanchez as often...
...March, when the wild cactus bursts into flower throughout the Southwest, Joe Abrigo's business also blossoms. Owner of an adobe trading post and bar near the ghost town of Terlingua, Texas, Abrigo, a 43-year-old Anthony Quinn lookalike, is one of a network of entrepreneurs along the Mexican border who are engaged in the lucrative if often shadowy business of buying and selling cactus plants wholesale. In summer, when demand hits its peak, a cactus trader may ship thousands of the plants in a week. They wind up in plastic pots at supermarkets or in the homes...
...town, supposedly because of his unhappiness with the saloon's irregular hours. Soon the place was a laid-back, beer-stocked afternoon retreat for country musicians. Among them: Jerry Jeff Walker, who brought old pals like Willie Nelson by for a visit and in 1973 recorded his Viva Terlingua album there...
...informed individual knows that the home of the one-and-only World Championship Chili Cook-Off [Nov. 17] is Terlingua, Texas. To mention the Terlingua Cook-Off next to a flimsy California copy is a gross injustice. May the robbers suffer eternal heartburn...