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María Guillermina (Guille) Valdes Villalva (also known as Guillermina Valdez de Villalva or Villalba, December 15, 1939 – September 11, 1991) was a Chicana scholar and activist born in El Paso, Texas. [1]
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.
The Juarez Racetrack on June 16, 1919. Note the cannonball hole in the north cupola of the grandstand, caused by American artillery in El, Paso Texas. The Third Battle of Ciudad Juarez, or simply the Battle of Juarez, was the final major battle involving the rebels of Francisco "Pancho" Villa.
Thanksgiving day 1917 news: Francisco "Pancho" Villa and his men had robbed a Mexican central Line train of $70,000, some merchandise and some horses.
The first location was acquired in autumn 1977, through the Diocese of El Paso loaning a vacant building. The first volunteers moved into the building on February 3, 1978. [11] Volunteers from around the country came to El Paso to help the shelter. [12] Loretto Academy, a Catholic girls' school, provided 40 student volunteers to the shelter in ...
El Paso slows guns and ammunition exports into Mexico almost completely due to the increase of undercover Mexican and American Secret Service agents and informants throughout Mexico's border cities. This was bad for Pascual Orozco and President Madero due to El Paso being one of the largest recruiting centers for volunteers on both sides of the ...
Dallas Stoudenmire, El Paso Town Marshal and U.S. Marshal Pancho Villa , Revolutionary general of the Mexican Revolution, Centaur of the North (Centaurio del Norte) Florida J. Wolfe (1867-1913), socialite, cattle rancher and philanthropist.
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