Password Volume VIII, Numbers 1-4 from 1963 Volume VIII, No. 1, Spring 1963 Richard Fenner Burges by C.L. Sonnichsen Maud Durlin Sullivan by Betty Mary Goetting The Rev. B.M.G. Williams by Conrey Bryson Records and Reminiscences of Old Fort Bliss by Richard K. McMasters A Color Portrait of a Pioneer, Samuel B. Gillett by Robert Vincent […]
Author: EPCHS
Password VII, 1962
Password Volume VII, Numbers 1-4 from 1962 Volume VII, No. 1, Spring 1962 Pasan Por Aqui by Joseph Leach Biographical Sketch of James Wiley Magoffin by Richard C. White Biographical Sketch of Lawrence M. Lawson by Conrey Bryson Wagon Roads Across New Mexico: 1846-1860 Book Reviews Horn and Wallace, eds., Confederate Victories in the Southwest: Prelude […]
Plan A Visit to the El Paso County Historical Society
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Support & Membership
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Password VI, 1961
Password Volume VI, Numbers 1-4 from 1961 Volume VI, No. 1, Spring 1961 Recollections of Camp Cotton by Albion Smith Spanish and Mexican Surveying Terms and Systems by Katherine H. White Book Reviews Sonnichsen, Tularosa: Last of the Frontier West, by John Middagh Perrigo, Our Spanish Southwest, by Alice D. Harvey Spencer, Gold Country, 1828-1858, by […]
Password V, 1960
Password Volume V, Numbers 1-4 from 1960 Volume V, No. 1, Spring 1960 The Presidential Election of 1928 in El Paso County by Charles E. Hershberger The Guns of Valverde by Richard K. McMaster and George Ruhlen Book Reviews McCaleb, The Mier Expedition, by Eugene O. Porter Wilhem, Cavalcade of Hooves and Horns, by C.L. Sonnichsen […]
Password IV, 1959
Password Volume IV, Numbers 1-4 from 1959 Volume IV, No. 1, Spring 1959 El Paso – Fort Yuma Wagon Road: 1857-1860 by Jack C. Vowell, Jr. Fort Hancock-Last of the Frontier Forts by George Ruhlen The Development of Irrigation in the City of El Paso by Alice White Book Reviews Hoover, Early Days in the Mogollons, […]
Password III, 1958
Password Volume III, Numbers 1-4 from 1958 Volume III, No. 1, Spring 1958 The El Pas Tin Mine by Conrey Bryson The Journal of Ebenezer Hanna by Martin H. Hall The Recollections of Old Fort Bliss by Mrs. Robert Lee Howze Book Reviews Golden, The American Indian: Then and Now, by Eugene O. Porter Keleher, Violence […]
Photos: Early Businesses
In the late 1880’s the population of El Paso was about 800 brave souls. With the arrival of the railroad in 1881 that all changed. The population boomed and businesses sprouted up and flourished. Following is a sampling of photos of some early El Paso businesses from our archives.