El Paso In Pictures

Author : Frank J. Mangan
Publisher : Texas Christian University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780875653501
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book El Paso in Pictures written by Frank J. Mangan and published by Texas Christian University Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beginning with drawings and woodcuts depicting the days before photography, this book follows the story of life at the Pass of the North, documenting change as El Paso took shape and grew from a dirt-street frontier town into a modern city in the 1970s. Each era is fascinating, from the arrival of the conquistadores, through the coming of the railroad in the 1880s, the turn of the century with the establishment of more businesses and the move toward permanent residences, the Mexican Revolution, the war years, the rapid changes of the fifties and, finally, the sophistication of the seventies. Many of the photographs, especially those of the Mexican Revolution, are extremely rare and had not been public before the 1971 publication of El Paso in Pictures. First published by The Mangan Press/El Paso.

Author : Frank J. Mangan
Publisher : Mangan Books
ISBN 13 : 9780930208028
Total Pages : 174 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book El Paso in Pictures written by Frank J. Mangan and published by Mangan Books. This book was released on 1971 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Publisher : Turner Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 1618586254
Total Pages : 243 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Historic Photos of El Paso written by and published by Turner Publishing Company. This book was released on 2008-05-01 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: El Paso is a city with an international history and culture that is tied to the Rio Grande. Native Americans followed the river and traded with other groups that lived near it. In 1598, Don Juan de Oñate traveled north with a large caravan from Zacatecas, Mexico, to what became known as El Paso del Norte. Near San Elizario, Oñate claimed the area for Spain, and it became a trade center along El Camino Real, the Royal Highway, which went north all the way to the Española Valley in New Mexico.With the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, in 1848, the Rio Grande became the international boundary between the United States and Mexico, and El Paso became a town of westernmost Texas. Historic Photos of El Paso includes hundreds of images of this great American city, including government, businesses, schools, architecture, military history, and other subjects of historical interest, all showcased in vivid black-and-white.

Author : El Paso County Historical Society
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1467144878
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lost Restaurants of El Paso written by El Paso County Historical Society and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2021 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: El Paso was a crossroads long before it was a border town, and its restaurant history represents the same intersection of foodways and culinary traditions. When the Ladies' Auxiliary for the YMCA produced El Paso's first known community cookbook in 1898, a number of its recipes appeared in English for the first time. Many of the eateries that supported that variety are now gone, but places like Jaxson's, Griggs and the Central Café changed the city's tastebuds forever. Walk the colonnade of the Hollywood Café or plop down at Bill Parks Bar-B-Q in this collection of standbys served up by the El Paso County Historical Society.

Author : James R. Murphy
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780738571201
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book El Paso, 1850-1950 written by James R. Murphy and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2009 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Located at the far western tip of Texas, the city of El Paso is bordered on the north by New Mexico and on the south by the city of Juarez, Mexico. The area's recorded history dates back more than 400 years when Spanish missionaries gave the region its name: El Paso del Norte, or The Pass of the North. Between 1850 and 1950, El Paso's growth was influenced by a variety of people and events. The "four dead in five seconds" shootout in 1881 gave El Paso the short-lived nickname "Six-Shooter Capital" until the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral in Tombstone, Arizona, happened later that year. When the railroad arrived, El Paso was abruptly transformed from a sleepy, adobe village to a vital international crossroads. The Mexican Revolution influenced the city in the early part of the 20th century, and the 1920s saw Prohibition energize the local tourist trade with barrooms and gambling available just across the border. El Paso also became an inland Ellis Island, with thousands of immigrants entering the United States eager for a new start. This book examines the early years of El Paso's evolution. Book jacket.

Author : Maceo Crenshaw Dailey, Jr
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1439647445
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book African Americans in El Paso written by Maceo Crenshaw Dailey, Jr and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2014-09-29 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: El Paso’s African American community can trace its origins back to the 16th century, when the black Moor known as Esteban roamed the southwest and, more significantly, those Africans in the party of conquistador Juan de Oñate crossed the Rio Grande in 1598. The modern El Paso African American community began to take shape in the 1880s, as the railroad industry, military establishment, and agricultural community all had black Americans in their ranks. Black leaders and their followers established a school and founded several significant black churches. Texas’s first state branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is recorded to have been formed in El Paso; the first major court cases that challenged the all-white Democratic primary came from this city; the Texas Western College basketball team won the NCAA championship in 1966 with five starting black players; and today, the city is inhabited by black military retirees, entrepreneurs, educators, and other professionals (each with vibrant and socially conscious organizations), making it a progressive model of community development.

Author : Sandra Fye
Publisher : Turner
ISBN 13 : 9781596524309
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Historic Photos of El Paso written by Sandra Fye and published by Turner. This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Photos chiefly from the the collections of the El Paso Public Library, El Paso County Historical Society, and Library of Congress.

Author : Craig M. Peters
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780738584805
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book El Paso's Manhattan Heights written by Craig M. Peters and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2011 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Manhattan Heights Historic District can trace its beginnings to June 9, 1899, when paperwork was filed by El Paso and New York investors to begin the process of opening the Federal Copper Company. By 1912, however, the smelter was closed and demolished. Shortly thereafter, four of the five parcels of land originally owned by the smelter were purchased to build what many considered to be El Paso's first suburban neighborhood. The first house was built in 1914, with many more to follow, representing Spanish, Georgian, and Moderne architectural styling of the times. With the construction of Manhattan Heights School and Veterans Memorial Park, the small district covering 1,910 acres attracted many of El Paso's prominent citizens.

Author : Winston Groom
Publisher : Liveright Publishing
ISBN 13 : 163149225X
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book El Paso: A Novel written by Winston Groom and published by Liveright Publishing. This book was released on 2016-10-04 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three decades after the first publication of Forrest Gump, Winston Groom returns to fiction with this sweeping American epic. Long fascinated with the Mexican Revolution and the vicious border wars of the early twentieth century, Winston Groom brings to life a much-forgotten period of history in this sprawling saga of heroism, injustice, and love. El Paso pits the legendary Pancho Villa against a thrill-seeking railroad tycoon known only as the Colonel—whose fading fortune is tied up in a colossal ranch in Chihuahua, Mexico. But when Villa kidnaps the Colonel’s grandchildren and absconds into the Sierra Madre, the aging New England patriarch and his son head to El Paso, hoping to find a group of cowboys brave enough to hunt down the Generalissimo. Replete with gunfights, daring escapes, and an unforgettable bullfight, El Paso becomes an indelible portrait of the American Southwest in the waning days of the frontier, one that is “sure to entertain” (Jackson Clarion-Ledger).

Author : Luke Lowenfield
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780578558226
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.2X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Buenas Noches El Paso written by Luke Lowenfield and published by . This book was released on 2019-11 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Buenas Noches El Paso" is a colorfully illustrated picture book about a young boy's day and dreams in El Paso, Texas. The brilliant sunsets, peaceful river, and unchanging mountains reflect the unique culture of the borderland. The child's familiar bedtime routine and hometown environment merge with his fantasy dreamscape to inspire readers' creativity and love for this city. This book was written by Luke Lowenfield and illustrated by renowned artist Hal Marcus, both native El Pasoans.