The Pecos River in Literature and Folklore
N 29° 42.370 W 101° 21.203
14R E 272323 N 3288544
Second of three historic markers in stone pedestals overlooking the Pecos River in a rest area off the US 90.
Waymark Code: WMPNPY
Location: Texas, United States
Date Posted: 09/27/2015
Views: 5
This historic marker overlooks the Pecos River. It is a few yards left of the Pecos River High Bridge historic marker.
Marker Number: 13410
Marker Text:
Noted for mineral-thick waters and sudden floods, the Pecos River snakes through Texas on its way to the Rio Grande. Historian J. Evetts Haley and folklorist J. Frank Dobie, who called it "a strange river," and a "barricade," are among many who have immortalized the Pecos in writing. Zane Grey wrote, "Rising clear and cold in the mountains of northern New Mexico, its pure waters cut through rough country that changed its flood to turbid red." Storytellers have likened the river and the arid land along it to hell, death and violence. A natural border for several counties, the Pecos is where the mythic Wild West begins, the land that produced the legendary Judge Roy Bean and fabled Pecos Bill. (2005)
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