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McDonald Observatory
McDonald
Observatory, a research unit of The University of
Texas at Austin, is one of the world's leading centers
for astronomical research, teaching, and public
education and outreach. Observatory facilities are
located atop Mount Locke and Mount Fowlkes in the
Davis Mountains of West Texas, which offer some of the
darkest night skies in the continental United States.
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Fort Davis
National Historic Site
 Set
in the rugged beauty of the Davis Mountains of west
Texas, Fort Davis is one of America's best surviving
examples of an Indian Wars frontier military post in
the Southwest. From 1854 to 1891, Fort Davis was
strategically located to protect emigrants, mail
coaches, and freight wagons on the Trans-Pecos portion
of the San Antonio-El Paso Road and the Chihuahua
Trail, and to control activities on the southern stem
of the Great Comanche War Trail and Mescalero Apache
war trails. Fort Davis is important in understanding
the presence of African Americans in the West and in
the frontier military because the 24th and 25th U.S.
Infantry and the 9th and 10th U.S. Cavalry, all-black
regiments established after the Civil War, were
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Chinati
Foundation Museum
The Chinati
Foundation/La Fundación Chinati is a contemporary art
museum based upon the ideas of its founder, Donald
Judd. The specific intention of Chinati is to preserve
and present to the public permanent large-scale
installations by a limited number of artists. The
emphasis is on works in which art and the surrounding
landscape are inextricably linked. As Judd wrote in
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