The road north of the Chisos Basin runs beside the grave of Nina Hannolds, one of the first settlers of Big Bend, who died during childbirth at 31. Her body faces a gully (not pictured, but to the left) and has a nice view of the Chisos Basin. It is hard for me to imagine actually living here, particularly back at the beginning of the twentieth century. I still cannot fathom where you would get water. In fact, the Park Service has to pipe water several miles (and one or two thousand feet vertically) through the window to the main camp in the Basin. It is a little eerie to think that the landscape is pretty much unchanged from when she lived here—so little weathering has taken place that her tombstone hardly looks 100 years old.