It is not hard to see why they call it Elephant Rock. Elephant Rock is just off the highway from Marfa to Shafter. Shafter is a name that I have wondered about a long time. I had never heard of Col. Shafter but he was commander of the First Infantry Regiment at Ft. Davis.
He had a friend John W. Spence, a freighter turned prospector, who found silver ore near the present town of Shafter. Spencer sh…