–via Victoria Contreras, Head of Archives– If you want your project to stand out, consider using archival collections from the Archives of the Big Bend. Start by getting inspired. You can visit the archives to look at research done in …
–via Mary Cantrell of The Big Bend Sentinel– The collection of linguist and photographer Don Burgess, a man originally from Alpine who spent most of his life in the Sierra Madre Mountains of Mexico documenting the Indigenous Tarahumara people, was donated …
-via news.sulross.edu– The Archives of the Big Bend is proud to share the news of three new collections available for viewing and research starting in the Spring of 2024. Over the last several months, the Archives acquired three sizeable donations, …
-via news.sulross.edu– The Archives of the Big Bend, located at the Bryan Wildenthal Memorial Library on the Alpine campus of Sul Ross State University, has been awarded the Preservica Starter Plus Grant. Preservica, a leading provider of digital preservation software, …
The Archives of the Big Bend, Sul Ross State University, is pleased to unveil its first-ever logo. Senior Archivist Melleta Bell and design firm David Bell Creative of Tyler, Texas, collaborated to produce an image illustrative of the last frontier …


