[1] Langtry was originally established in 1882 by the Southern Pacific Railroad as a grading camp called Eagle Nest.

[2] It was later renamed for George Langtry, an engineer and foreman, who supervised the immigrant Chinese work crews building the railroad in the area.

Langtry began to decline after the highway was moved slightly north in the early 1900s for a more direct east-west route.

The nearest transportation option is served by Amtrak’s Sunset Limited, which passes through the town on Union Pacific tracks on the Sanderson Subdivision, but makes no stop.

[6] Found on Mile Canyon right near Langtry is Bonfire Shelter, an archeological site that has yielded bones from butchered animals, including bison, driven to their deaths over the cliff by Native Americans thousands of years ago.