Most of the papers published in this volume were originally presented in February 1995 at the first Trans-Pecos Rock Art Symposium in Alpine, Texas, hosted by Sul Ross State University and cosponsored by the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department (TPWD) and the university.
The idea for the symposium was conceived by the participants of a rock art recording expedition to Big Bend Ranch State Park in 1993, sponsored by the TPWD and organized and led by J. David Ing, the Regional Cultural Resource Coordinator.

"The Secret Family of ""Pancho"" Villa: An Oral History, " presents the results of an investigation into the uncertain social origin in Durango, Mexico, of Jose Doroteo Arango better known as Francisco Pancho Villa, the Mexican Revolutionary. For this reason, the research has to do with the daily and private lives of numerous men and women from different social levels who lived in the Porfirian-era state of Durango during the end of the nineteenth century and revolutionary Mexico at the beginning of the twentieth century. The research delves into the social, familial, and personal...