What the crusty, old man in the battered pickup didn’t warn us: Several miles down the caliche road was a steel gate that barred our way. After we turned around, a younger, grimmer man, also in a ...

When I was very young, I received as a gift the book titled Pecos Bill, the story of a wild, young cowboy who grew up on the Pecos River in West Texas. It became one of my favorites and left me with ...

Horsehead Crossing on the Pecos River was one of the most important sites in the Old West. A good percentage of the traffic crossing the West Texas desert forded the river here. The deep cuts in the ...

PECOS COUNTY, Texas — The Pecos County Historical Commission is set to celebrate the historic Horsehead Crossing on the Pecos River. This will be the fifth annual Horsehead Crossing Celebration, and ...

PECOS COUNTY, Texas — Somewhere in Pecos County, out in the middle of nowhere, along the banks of the Pecos River near present-day Girvin, TX., lies what might be called the second most historic ...

The Pecos River, a typical Western freestone stream nestled at the foot of the Sangre de Christo Mountains in northern New Mexico, is certainly not any secret trout stream. Located less than an hour's ...

These days the Pecos River barely fills its dry, sandy bed where it crosses West Texas, but the river could be poised to flow again — with treated oil field wastewater. Companies are racing to figure ...

PECOS, N.M. (KRQE) – The Upper Pecos Watershed Association has announced its annual litter clean-up day, the Dia del Rio y Camino (River and Road) event. The event will take place on Saturday, Apr. 22 ...