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Juan de Oñate, born in present-day Zacatecas, Zacatecas, Mexico, was the first explorer to arrive at the Rio Grande near El Paso (near the current small town of San Elizario, which is about 30 miles (48 km) downstream of El Paso), where he ordered his expedition party to rest and where the official act of possession, La Toma, was executed and celebrated, on April 30, 1598.
San Francisco: El Tecolote [19] Texas Houston Tierra! [27] New York: New York: 1930 1930 Anarchist newspaper. ... El Paso, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Sonora ...
Francisco de Borja del Paso y Troncoso (October 8, 1842 in Veracruz, Veracruz Mexico – April 30, 1916 in Florence, Italy) was an important Mexican historian, archivist, and Nahuatl language scholar. He "was and remains the outstanding major Mexican investigator of his era, a fully accepted figure in the international group of his peers."
The Chamuscado and Rodríguez Expedition visited the land on what became present day New Mexico in 1581–1582. The expedition was led by Francisco Sánchez, called "El Chamuscado," and Fray Agustín Rodríguez, the first Spaniards known to have visited the Pueblo Indians since Francisco Vásquez de Coronado 40 years earlier.
The San Elizario Salt War, also known as the Salinero Revolt or the El Paso Salt War, was an extended and complex range war of the mid-19th century that revolved around the ownership and control of immense salt lakes at the base of the Guadalupe Mountains in West Texas.
Roughly, S of the Texas and Pacific-Southern Pacific RR tracks from western El Paso to Fabens 31°40′21″N 106°22′35″W / 31.6725°N 106.376389°W / 31.6725; -106.376389 ( Franklin
List of Mayors of El Paso. Mayor Term Ben S. Dowell: 1873–1875 Melton A. Jones: 1875–1876 [1] Solomon Shultz: 1880–1881 Joseph Magoffin: 1881–1885 C. Lightbody:
Temple San Ignacio de Loyola is a Catholic church building that is in El Paso, Texas. The current church was designed and executed from 1913 to 1922 by Gustavus A. Trost, of the Trost & Trost architectural and engineering company. The building is still in use, as of late 2023, and is part of the Diocese of El Paso.