The Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Volume 58, July 1954 - April, 1955 Page: 100
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Southwestern Historical Quarterly
calling the convention; convention organization; West Texas personnel in the
convention. Attitude of West Texas delegates: preliminary functions; poll-tax pre-
requisite; postponement of the election; immigration bureau; land subsidies to
railroads; free public school system. Ratification: the campaign; results. Short
biographies of J. W. Barnett, H. G. Bruce, Ed. Burleson, Louis Cardis, G. B.
Cooke, A. O. Cooley, N. H. Darnell, James R. Fleming, John S. Ford, A. C.
Graves, H. C. King, T. L. Nugent, Jacob Waelder, W. T. G. Weaver.
AC805.T3/1933 No. 14. Pol., W. Tex., Bio.
HAMMONS, NANCY LEE - M.A., September, 1942 [229]
A History of El Paso County, Texas, to 1900. 175 pp.
Texas Western College, El Paso, Texas
Illustrations: first mission and pueblo in Texas, Corpus Christi de la Ysleta,
1682; monument marking what is believed to have been the site of the Spanish
settlement of San Lorenzo; the Magoffin home, 1875; the Hart home, 1942; the
Hart family monument; monument at the southeast corner of Overland and
El Paso Streets, designating the place where the Butterfield stage stopped; engine
built in 1857 and used by the Arizona Southern Railroad; old Fort Bliss near
Hart's Mill.
Maps: (1) topographic map of El Paso; (2) original Santa Fe County, showing
area of El Paso County ceded to New Mexico in 1850; (3) El Paso County, 1851-
1911, and 1942; (4) map showing Butterfield Line and Military Road around
El Paso.
Tables: none
Contents: Early chapters on the natural setting of El Paso: location and size;
geology; water supply; flora; fauna. Beginning with the early Indian inhabitants,
the thesis progresses to a thorough coverage of the economic and political develop-
ment of El Paso County to 1900oo. The last chapter deals with the institutional
development of the county (churches, libraries, schools, clubs, and fraternal or-
ganizations). There is a great deal of material on Fort Bliss, the coming of the
railroads, the cattle industry, lawlessness, and county offices. Much of the material
has been taken from scrapbooks, minute books from city and county files, deeds,
police court minutes, and pioneer scrapbooks kept by members of the El Paso
County Pioneer Society.
1. Co. His., Soc. His., Rel., Ed., Trans., Ranch., Indus., W. Tex.
HANEY, P. L. - M.A., August, 1948 [230]
The International Controversy Over the Waters of the Upper Rio
Grande. 129 pp.
Texas Western College, El Paso, Texas
Illustrations: Elephant Butte Dam (1948); looking up the Rio Grande from the
dam (1948); map showing drainage area of Upper Rio Grande; Elephant Butte
Dam (looking across it, 1948); Elephant Butte Dam Power Plant; map showing
the Rio Grande in the El Paso area; looking down the Rio Grande from Elephant
Butte Dam (1948); Caballo Dam (1948).
Maps: none
Tables: drainage areas above El Paso on the Rio Grande; estimated cost of the
entire project.
Contents: This thesis begins with the early history of land disputes in the
Southwest between the United States and Mexico. Contains a section on early
efforts to build a dam on the Rio Grande at El Paso and a section on the proposal
and eventual defeat of a plan to prevent the building of Elephant Butte Dam with
private capital. The two concluding chapters deal with the history and con-
troversies over the present Elephant Butte project. A number of primary sources
are listed in the extensive bibliography.
23. Dip., Soc. His., 2oth C.
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