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For almost 30 years, public radio has been a dream in Far West Texas. Many sincere efforts to bring it to our region failed. Now, KRTS – 93.5 FM on your dial, Marfa Public Radio serving the Trans-Pecos Region, will launch this February. See the story on page four, as Texas Monthly editor Evan Smith tells it for the Desert Candle.

We expand the Candle to 36 pages in this winter issue. Larry Moffitt of United Press International has a chapter, A Dog Canyon Adventure, from his memoir; Barbara Novovitch, journalist and stringer for The New York Times, presents Billy Faier, a new resident of Far West Texas; David Wilkinson, award-winning Texas author, shares an excerpt from his new novel in progress, Where the Mountains are Thieves; David Richards, Texas trial lawyer and published author, gives a true account of A Trial in Del Rio; and we introduce a new writer for the Candle, Sharon Collyer with The Great Terlingua Land Grab.

Luc Novovitch has graciously supplied photographs; Texas lawyer and poet, Michael Maguire of Austin and Marfa, pens poetry for this issue; Roy Hamric, former U.T.-Arlington and Baylor professor now living in Thailand, writes our book review; Andrew Stuart, a journalist and Candle assistant editor, reveals the artistry of filmmaking in Marfa; Lonn Taylor, retired Smithsonian historian now living in Fort Davis, lets us know about the Big Bend archeological studies in the area; Bob Miles of Fort Davis, a member of the Texas Mountain Trail Writers and Western Writers of America, tells our Folklore story; John Karges, a conservation biologist with The Nature Conservancy, teases with a Far West Texas Quiz; and Dennie Miller of Alpine, photographer and published outdoors writer, profiles four Folks of Far West Texas.

Kay Taylor Burnett
Editor



Kay Taylor Burnett  Introduction

Evan Smith  Public Radio arrives in Big Bend

Larry Moffitt  A Dog Canyon Adventure

Barbara Novovitch  Billy Faier, new resident of Far West Texas

Dennie Miller  FOLKS OF FAR WEST TEXAS

Roy Hamric  BOOK REVIEW: Dead in their Tracks by John Annerino

Bob Miles  FOLKLORE: The Legend of Dolores Mountain

TRANS PECOS EVENTS CALENDAR

Michael Maguire  POETRY

David Richards  A Trial in Del Rio

Andrew Stuart  Marfa Filmmaker, Rick Guilliams

David Wilkinson  Where the Mountains are Thieves

Lonn Taylor  Documenting Rock Art in the Trans-Pecos

Sharon Collyer  The Great Terlingua Land Grab

Kay Taylor Burnett  McDonald Observatory Represented in South Africa
  
John Karges  Far West Texas Quiz Answers