Lost Restaurants of El Paso
Lost Restaurants of El Paso

Author: El Paso County Historical Society

Publisher: Arcadia Publishing

Published: 2021

Total Pages: 160

ISBN-13: 1467144878

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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.

Ringside Seat to a Revolution
Ringside Seat to a Revolution

Author: David Romo

Publisher:

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 334

ISBN-13:

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Presents a comprehensive history of the Mexican Revolution of 1911 and the cities of El Paso and Juarez, and contains essays and archival photographs about Pancho Villa and other revolutionaries of the time.

El Paso: A Novel
El Paso: A Novel

Author: Winston Groom

Publisher: Liveright Publishing

Published: 2016-10-04

Total Pages: 432

ISBN-13: 163149225X

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Bestseller • Southern Independent Booksellers Association Bestseller • Mountains and Plains Independent Booksellers Association 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).

A Place in El Paso
A Place in El Paso

Author: Gloria López-Stafford

Publisher: UNM Press

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 228

ISBN-13: 9780826317094

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This memoir of growing up in El Paso in the 1940s and 1950s creates an entire city: the way a barrio awakens in the early morning sun, the thrill of a rare desert snow, the taste of fruit-flavored raspadas on summer afternoons, the "money boys" who beg from commuters passing back and forth to Juárez, and the mischief of children entertaining themselves in the streets. López-Stafford shows readers El Paso through the eyes of Yoya--short for Gloria--the high-spirited narrator, who is five years old when the book begins. Yoya is a survivor. Her young mother has died, leaving her in the care of her much older father, who tries to provide for his family by selling used clothing. Her brother Carlos, Padre Luna, and a community of children and women assume responsibility for Yoya, but like the inexplicable loss of her mother, unexpected changes separate her from her beloved barrio. The search for su lugar, her place, becomes a search for identity as Gloria seeks to understand her various homes and families.

Pass of the North
Pass of the North

Author: Charles Leland Sonnichsen

Publisher: Southern Methodist University Press

Published: 1968

Total Pages: 526

ISBN-13:

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Historia del Paso del Norte: cuatro siglos en el Río Bravo. Incluye índice. Texto en inglés.

Smeltertown
Smeltertown

Author: Monica Perales

Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 351

ISBN-13: 0807834114

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Traces the history of Smeltertown, Texas, a city located on the banks of the Rio Grande that was home to generations of ethnic Mexicans who worked at the American Smelting and Refining Company in El Paso, Texas, with information from newspapers, personalarchives, photographs, employee records, parish newsletters, and interviews.

Insiders' Guide® to El Paso
Insiders' Guide® to El Paso

Author: Megan Eaves

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2010-09-01

Total Pages: 271

ISBN-13: 0762767014

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A first edition, Insiders' Guide to El Paso is the essential source for in-depth travel and relocation information to this legendary Texas panhandle area with wild west charm. Written by a local (and true insider), this guide offers a personal and practical perspective of El Paso and its surrounding environs.

Forty Years at El Paso, 1858-1898
Forty Years at El Paso, 1858-1898

Author: W. W. Mills

Publisher: Good Press

Published: 2019-12-19

Total Pages: 243

ISBN-13:

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'Forty Years at El Paso' is a candid memoir by William Wallace Mills that documents his personal experiences in the city from 1858-1898. Mills writes about his encounters with notorious figures like Victorio, the Apache general, and his rivalry with A.J. Fountain, his worst enemy. He also details the violence and corruption that plagued El Paso during this time, including the Cardis-Howard feud and the bloody reign of Marshal Studemeier. This book is a must-read for anyone interested in the history of El Paso or the American Southwest.

Cerro Gordo
Cerro Gordo

Author: Cecile Page Vargo

Publisher: Arcadia Publishing

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 130

ISBN-13: 0738595209

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High in the Inyo Mountains, between Owens Valley and Death Valley National Park, lies the ghost town of Cerro Gordo. Discovered in 1865, this silver town boomed to a population of 3,000 people in the hands of savvy entrepreneurs during the 1870s. As the silver played out and the town faded, a few hung on to the dream. By the early 1900s, Louis D. Gordon wandered up the Yellow Grade Road where freight wagons once traversed with silver and supplies and took a closer look at the zinc ore that had been tossed aside by early miners. The Fat Hill lived again, primarily as a small company town. By the last quarter of the 20th century, Jody Stewart and Mike Patterson found themselves owners of the rough and tumble camp that helped Los Angeles turn into a thriving metropolis because of silver and commercial trade. Cerro Gordo found new life, second to Bodie, as California's best-preserved ghost town.