wide-open Big Bend area (combined population 12,500) including Brewster, Presidio, and Jeff Davis Counties.

History

The area had been a campsite for cattlemen tending their herds between 1878 and the spring of 1882, when a town of tents was created by railroad workers and their families. Because the section of the railroad was called Osborne, that was the name of the small community for a brief time. The railroad needed access

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