Cibolo Creek Ranch

Marfa (circa mid-1800s): In 1988, third-generation Texan, entrepreneur, and preservationist John B. Poindexter began acquiring the historic Big Bend Milton Faver Ranch, which was named for its founder, the first cattle baron of Presidio County. He then meticulously restored the ranch’s three crumbling forts, filling them with Spanish colonial, Mexican, and Western artifacts, art, and antiques, giving what is now a luxurious resort an authentic 19th-century atmosphere. The 30,000-acre ranch had been scrub- choked, the unwitting result of over-grazing. Ongoing habitat restoration has returned the land to its pre-pioneer condition, a lush, waving carpet of buffalo grass (“cibolo” means buffalo). Indigenous species were reintroduced, and the buffalo again roam.