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The Texas state historical marker reads "Two and one half miles east on the Packsaddle Mountain, in a battle fought August 4, 1873, Captain J. R. Moss, Stephen B. Moss, William B. Moss, Eli Lloyd, Arch Martin, Pink Ayers, E. D. Harrington, and Robert Brown routed a band of Indians thrice their number. The last Apache battle in this region."
Packsaddle Mountain is a laccolith set in the Chihuahuan Desert where it is a landmark along Highway 118 which skirts the eastern base of the mountain. The mountain is composed of a core of intrusive igneous rock that forced up and breached the roof of light-colored Late Cretaceous sedimentary rock of the Boquillas Formation and the Pen Formation, leaving the strata tilted around the ...
The mountain's toponym has been officially adopted by the United States Board on Geographic Names. [4] The name was applied by Ferdinand Vandeveer Hayden circa 1875 to honor John Thomas Moss (1839–1880), an American frontiersman, prospector, and miner. [5] John Moss was the founder of Parrott City which was six miles south of the peak. Moss ...
Dermatophyllum secundiflorum is a species of flowering shrub or small tree in the family Fabaceae [2] that is native to the Southwestern United States (Texas, New Mexico) and Mexico (Chihuahua and Coahuila south to Hidalgo, Puebla, and Querétaro). [3] Its common names include Texas mountain laurel, Texas mescalbean, frijolito, and frijolillo. [2]
There was also a workshop on Martha's Vineyard July 16–21, 2012, which featured Tony Shalhoub, Debra Monk, Chuck Cooper, and David Turner. [5] The play premiered on Broadway, at the Lincoln Center Vivian Beaumont Theater, in previews on March 20, 2014, with the official opening on April 17, 2014.
Hylocomium splendens, commonly known as glittering woodmoss, [2] splendid feather moss, [3] stairstep moss, and mountain fern moss, is a perennial clonal moss [4] with a widespread distribution in Northern Hemisphere boreal forests. It is commonly found in Europe, Russia, Alaska and Canada, where it is often the
Hymenoxys odorata is a species of flowering plant in the daisy family known by the common names bitter rubberweed and western bitterweed.It is native to the southwestern and south-central United States from southern California to Texas north as far as Kansas and Colorado, as well as northern Mexico (Chihuahua, Coahuila, Durango, Nuevo León, San Luis Potosí, Sonora, Tamaulipas).
Miss Matmos tells the wife that the wise man lives on the top of a mountain far away and that the journey to the top of the mountain is difficult and dull. After months of walking and thinking about the subjects in the chapter headings, the wife arrives at the house of the wise old man; however, he is in fact not a wise man but a wide man ...