Lizards on the Mantel, Burros at the Door: A Big Bend Memoir

A warm, witty memoir of a young family's rugged adventure living in the newly established Big Bend National Park in the 1940s.

A woman who went West with her husband in the 1840s must have expected hardships and privation, but during the 1940s, when Etta Koch stopped off in Big Bend with her young family and a twenty-three-foot travel trailer in tow—which they named Porky, the Road Hog—she anticipated a brief, civilized camping trip between her old home in Ohio and a new one in Arizona. I...