Traveling with books in hand!
Texas Mountain Trail BookCrossing Project — our newest project!
Women's Memoirs Travel Itinerary
Other Programs
Texas Mountain Trail Reading Group at Goodreads.com
Visit our Independent Book Sellers!
Texas Mountain Trail BookCrossing Project
Join the fun and "catch" and "release" books about the region. Visit the parks, museums and historic sites listed in these books. Read more, here!
Reading the Texas Mountain Trail — Women's Memoirs Travel Itinerary
There's a number of honest and poignant memoirs in print, written by women who've lived in Far West Texas and the Texas Mountain Trail Region. You can still visit many of the places depicted in thise moving memoirs. For a special travel itinerary, click here for a list of great reads!
Join the Texas Mountain Trail Reading Group at Goodreads.com!
We've just started a bookclub to discuss the women's memoirs set in the Texas Mountain Trail region and invite you to participate. It's free! Just go to www.goodreads.com and sign up for your free, no-obligation membership. Then, click on their groups page, and search for the Texas Mountain Trail group.
Support Regional Independent Booksellers:
- Big Bend Natural History Association, retail outlets in visitors centers in the Big Bend National Park, www.bigbendbookstore.org/store/
- Guadalupe Mountains National Park operates a bookstore in the Pine Springs Visitor Center, and with Carlsbad Canyon operates an online bookstore, http://www.ccgma.org/store/index.html
- Fort Davis National Historic Site and Chamizal National Memorial both have bookstores operated by the Western States Natural Parks Association.
- Books can also be purchased at our state parks facilities, including Indian Lodge, Magoffin Home, Barton Warnock Environmental Education Center at Big Bend Ranch State Park, and Fort Leaton.
- Front Street Books, 121 E. Holland Ave., Alpine, TX 79830 1-800-597-3360
And next to the Gage Hotel, Marathon, TX 79842 1-432-386-4249.
www.fsbooks.com
- Marfa Bookstore, 105 South Highland, Marfa, TX 79843 1-432-729-3906
www.marfabookco.com
- The Hotel Limpia Gifts, 100 Main Street, Fort Davis, TX 79734 432-426-3241, www.hotellimpia.com
- Terlingua Trading Company, 100 Ivey Street, Terlingua, TX 79852. 432-371-2234 (Next to the Starlight Theatre in Terlingua Ghost Town.) http://www.historic-terlingua.com/historic_terlingua_ghostown_010.htm
We'll continue to add more information, please check back!