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DELORES
Mountain |
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This
mountain is named for a tall, dark-haired woman whose ghost is
seen
here. She was working as a servant girl in a large house out side
Laredo
in the 1880's when she fell in love with a sheepherder, who spent
many
weeks away from her tending sheep in the mountains. While they
were
apart, the two lovers lit brush fires to communicate their love over
the
great distance. Unfortunately, the Apaches also saw the fires. They
attacked
and killed the sheepherder. After her lover's murder, Delores
still
climbed the mountainto light her fire, hoping to see a reply in the
far-off
peaks. She did so until she was old and grey, and her ghost
continues
to kindle a flickering flame to this day.
LOCATION
Alpine
is in Brewster county in the southwestern corner of Texas, at
the
junction of U.S. Highway 67/90 and Highway 118. Delores Mountain
is
near Fort Davis, twenty-three miles north of Alpine on Highway 118.
