On Thursday evening, while our way to San Antonio we past a very small town, Paint Rock. Paint Rock is the size of my home town, with town population of about 300. When we saw a historical marker that read "Indian Pictography", we immediatly knew we wanted to check it out.
The Pictography is privately owned, it's on Fred and Kay Campbell's 2200 acre land.
Pictography is ancient images on stone; historians believe that the images on the Campbell's ranch were left behind by the Comanches. There are hundreds of pictographs along a rock bluff overlooking what once was an Indian camp ground. Most of the images are thought to be 200 to 500 years old.
Fred, who gave Judit and I the tour, explained that the land has been in his wives family since the 1800s. On his land Fred and Kay also have sheep, goats, buffalo, cows and llamas.
Is your mama a llama? (one of my favorite children books) :)
Fred Campbell is an extremely nice man. He shared with us that he studied at Texas ATM there he recieved his bachelors but he went on the get his Masters out of state. He told us that with $7.00 a day he was able to pay all his education.
He was also very intersting, he drove us around his land on a mule, and went into great detail about 13 different groups of pictographs. People are not allowed up on the rocks because of the rattlesnakes, but we still had a good view.
On our way to see the Pictographs on the mule
Judit and Fred
Hard to see the Pictographs with my phone camera
For more pictures check out http://www.gourmetgarlicgardens.com/paintrock.html
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