Editing Presidio County, Texas (section)

==In popular culture==
The [[Howard Hawks]] film ''[[Rio Bravo (1959 film)|Rio Bravo]]'', released 1959, starring [[John Wayne]], [[Dean Martin]], and [[Ricky Nelson]], was set in Presidio County, but filmed in Tucson.<ref>{{Citation|last=Hawks|first=Howard|title=Rio Bravo|date=April 4, 1959|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0053221/|others=John Wayne, Dean Martin, Ricky Nelson|access-date=July 29, 2018}}</ref>

The Riata house and exteriors for ''[[Giant (1956 film)|Giant]]'', released 1956, were filmed at Marfa.<ref>{{cite book |last=Ragsdale|first=Kenneth Baxter |title=Big Bend Country: Land of the Unexpected |year=1998|publisher=TAMU Press|isbn=978-0-89096-811-6|page=210}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last=Leonardo |first=Magdalin |title=The Ruins of Reata, Theatrical Archaeology Part One |url=http://our.tentativetimes.net/marfa/reatarun.html |publisher=James Dean Fans |access-date=December 12, 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100622003818/http://our.tentativetimes.net/marfa/reatarun.html |archive-date=June 22, 2010 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last=Leonardo |first=Magdalin |title=The Ruins of Reata, Theatrical Archaeology Part Two |url=http://our.tentativetimes.net/marfa/ruinreat.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/19990128131527/http://our.tentativetimes.net/marfa/ruinreat.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=January 28, 1999 |publisher=James Dean Fans |access-date=December 12, 2010 }}</ref> The big stars, Elizabeth Taylor, Rock Hudson, James Dean, and others stayed at the Hotel Paisano for two months.

''[[High Lonesome (film)|High Lonesome]]'', released in 1950, starring Chill Wills and John Drew Barrymore, was filmed in Antelope Springs, near Marfa.<ref>{{Citation|last=May|first=Alan Le|title=High Lonesome|date=September 1, 1950|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0042552/|others=John Drew Barrymore, Chill Wills, John Archer|access-date=July 29, 2018}}</ref>

The county was mentioned in ''[[Hunter (1984 U.S. TV series)|Hunter]]'' during part one of "City Under Siege" in the 1988–89 season.

In ''[[The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada]]'', the mountains of Presidio County stand as Coahuila, where Pete carries friend Mel to be buried among the ruins of his Mexican town of Jimenez.

U.S. Supreme Court Justice [[Antonin Scalia]] died at the historic [[Cibolo Creek Ranch]] near [[Shafter, Texas]] in 2016.