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El Paso - Named after the city in Texas, population 425,259. Spanish missionaries
founded El Paso in 1598. The city lies on the border between the United States and
Mexico and serves as a main gateway for travel between the two countries. El Paso
also ranks as an important distributing and manufacturing center of the Southwest.
It stands on the north bank of the Rio Grande, in the far western corner of Texas. It
lies on a pass between the Franklin Mountains to the north and the Sierra Madre
mountains to the south.
Photo - Post Card image; General Pershing's punitive expedition camp near the border, El Paso, Texas (postcard, c. 1916): Franklin Mountains, left-to-right (i.e., south-to-north)
are: Ranger Peak, Sugarloaf Mountain, and part of South Franklin Mountain. (University of Houston Digital Library) |
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