FURTHER RESOURCES AND PARTNERS

The Archives of the Big Bend partners with and promotes other relevant historical organizations and institutions. Learn more about them here.

 The Alpine Historical Association | Historic Alpine, Inc. (AHA) is a non-profit 501 (c)(3) organization. AHA operates with a mission of enhancing and promoting the Alpine Historical Association for the benefit of its membership. AHA is engaged with Alpine’s local leaders and various groups to maintain the local quality of life, help secure and protect Alpine’s heritage, and ensure a healthy business and living environment in Alpine’s historic downtown areas and historic overlays. AHA is supported by membership fees, donations, grant funding, community fundraising, and local events and tours.

 The Center for Big Bend Studies is committed to the recovery, protection, and sharing of this region’s rich cultural legacy through dynamic programs of research, education, public outreach, and publication.

Established by Sul Ross State University in 1987, the Center for Big Bend Studies promotes archaeological and historical research in the Greater Big Bend region of Texas and northern Mexico. The center conducts research and provides educational opportunities to university students, the public, and outside researchers.

The Handbook of Texas is an encyclopedia of Texas history, geography, and culture. Sponsored by the Texas State Historical Association, the online version is full-text searchable and contains the complete text of the six-volume print edition plus approximately 400 additional articles.

The mission of the Museum of the Big Bend , a department of Sul Ross State University, is to serve and educate the public by collecting, preserving, exhibiting, and interpreting the cultural, historic and natural materials that relate to the prehistory, histor,y and cultural diversity of the Big Bend region of Texas and Mexico.

The University of North Texas’ Portal to Texas History is a gateway for rare, historical, and primary source materials from or about Texas in digital format. Materials from the Archives holdings that have been digitized for preservation by the Portal include The Alpine Avalanche 1900-1923, W.D. Smithers hand-drawn maps, and Alpine Mayor Dorothy McBride Scrapbooks.

TSLAC, or the Texas State Library and Archives Commission , has been serving the people of Texas for more than a century. Since 1909, when the state founded the agency, we have been supporting the reading, learning, and historical preservation needs of Texas and its people. TSLAC preserves the archival record of Texas, supports research, and makes primary resources available to the public (Archives and Information Services).