“For as long as I have lived (and I’m no spring chicken) this has been called ELEPHANT ROCK…why rename it?”

A couple of key points to keep in mind as you ponder the idea…

In 1852, Milton Faver bought the old Cíbolo mission site, which he named Fortín del Cíbolo (Stronghold of the Cibolo). Profits from his operations at Cíbolo allowed Faver to buy adjoining land and expand his ranch to the point that it became the largest ranching operation in Presidio County.

In 1878, Major William Livermore, a surveyor at Fort Davis for whom Mount Livermore is named, plotted the salient landmarks of the region and labeled the weathered boulder near the entrance to the Fortín del Cíbolo as “Cíbolo.” (pictured here)

Cibolo is the name the soldiers in Ft Davis mapped it as, likely that’s what they were told by Milton Faver in the 1870s when he operated the old ranch by the same name.

Today, we are advocating for reclaiming the name “Cibolo Rock”—a name that spans all possible dimensions of Presidio County's identity from the ancient bison migrations, to many centuries of Native settlement, to recent ranching culture.