The southernmost point of Texas, Bagdad, which used to be a thriving trade port. Now it’s a border patrol watch point and little else. — Photos by Gayne Young
Gillespie Life, Outdoors
Life in the shadow of Bagdad, Texas
Bagdad is gone. All that remains is desert scrub, dunes of waist high grass, and a narrow beach littered with broken shells and a sprinkling of shredded plastic and other trash. Looking across the Rio Grande, it’s hard to believe that this piece of Mexican hard scrabble land was once a port that saw trade with the United States, England, France and Germany.
