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West Texas Talk

Avocational Historian and Archeologist Louis Aulbach

By Marfa Public Radio

Published November 25, 2017 at 5:21 PM CST

louis-stove-in-desert — Louis Aulbach on a hike along Terlingua Creek. (Linda Gorski)

On the day before Thanksgiving, a conversation about early settlers...of the Big Bend region. Avocational historian and archeologist, Louis Aulbach, has been studying this area of Texas for decades. He shares stories of what brought people to this part of the Chihuahuan desert, how they survived, and what makes their stories important.