The Legends of Big Bend National Park - by Ginger Hopkins (Paperback)

About the Book

The Legends of BBNP includes four stories based on popular trails in the park. The stories, based on old legends, highlight different parts of the park. The book includes scavenger hunts and a challenge for readers to write their own story.

Book Synopsis

In far West Texas, alongside the Rio Grande bordering Mexico, exists an unforgiving territory known as Big Bend National Park. These four legends in The Legends of Big Bend National Park offer fun and entertaining stories told by wild animals or cowboys in Big Bend that children between the ages of 8-12 will enjoy. #1 The Legend of Balance Rock: How did Balanced Rock get his name? #2 The Legend of the Canyon of the Brujas: Where does the singing come from in Canyon of the Brujas? #3 The Ghost of Chief Alsate and Those Mysterious Marfa Lights: Why is Chief Alsate still hovering in the mountains above the Basin. What are those mysterious Marfa lights? #4 The Ghost Steer: There's a ghost longhorn steer? Each legend has a scavenger hunt at the end of it and there is a challenge for the reader to write their own legend at the end of the book.