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Introduction
El Paso is the sixth largest city in Texas with a population of about 600,000 and covers 250 square miles .It is next door to Ciudad Juarez, which had three times the population of El Paso .
El Paso History
Archeological evidence at the Keystone Wetlands and Hueco Tanks sites indicates thousands of years of human settlement within the El Paso region .In 1598 Don Juan de Onate led 500 colonists and settled in what is noe San Elizario .Ciudad Juarez was also called El Paso until 1888 when it was given its present name to honor president Benito Juarez .The town now known as El Paso was settled in 1827, where it was first called franklin after a prominent settler . Fort Bliss was established in 1849 after the Mexican War. The city was incorporated in 1873. With the arrival of the Southern Pacific, Texas and Pacific and the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe railroads in 1881, the population boomed to 10,000 by the 1890 census. After the arrival of the railroads, El Paso become a boomtown: it earned the nickname "Six Shooter Capital" because of its lawlessness. El Paso hired a town marshal with rough reputation, Dallas Stoudenmire, who was known to shoot first and ask questions later. The "Four Dead in Five Seconds Gunfight" took place here on April 14, 1881.The Mexican Revolution (1910-1920) began in 1910, and Ciudad Juárez was the focus of intense fighting. Occasionally, stray shots killed civilians on the El Paso side. El Paso became a center of intrigue as various exiled leaders including Victoriano Huerta and (for a time) Pancho Villa were seen in the city. In January 1914, General John Joseph Pershing was stationed at Fort Bliss, where he was responsible for security along the border and mounted the ill fated Pancho Villa Expedition against Pancho Villa after the infamous raid on Columbus, New Mexico on March 9, 1916. The popular drink, the Margarita,was first mixed in the El Paso-Juárez area at Tommy's Place Bar on July 4, 1945 by Francisco "Pancho" Morales.The implementation of the North American Free Trade Agreement in 1994 affected the local economy, with transport, retail, and service firms expanding, and the accelerated loss of many industrial jobs.
Weather
El Paso has an arid, warm climate with very hot summers with little or no humidity and mild, dry winters with an average low of 28 °F (−2 °C) in January to an average high of 97 °F (36 °C ) in June and an average low of 68 °F (20 °C) in August
The Franklin Mountains divide El Paso into east and west sides .The city main tourist office is located at one Civic Center Plaza
El Paso Mission Trail
Representing the far reach of the Spanish Empire from the Royal Road in Mexico City, there are 3 missions you can see on the trail starting with Mission Ysleta (exit 32 off I10) built 1682, go south on Socorro Rd for 3 miles to Mission Socorro, also est 1682. The last is Presidio Chapel San Elcerio (915-851-2333 ), est 1789 6 miles south on Socorro Rd, the largest of the missions.
Concordia Cemetery
On El Paso's Boot Hill, visit the graves of storied gunslingers and outlaws of El Paso's wild west past . Copia Street and I-10
One of the Texas' best zoos with over 2,000 animals and an example of a replica of a 17th cent inn of the Camino Real .
4001 East Paisano Drive
representing the art of El Paso for the last 400 years, onr gallery of art from Mexico from the 17th to 20th cent
1 Arts Festival Plaza
4315 Transmountain Drive
505 North Santa Fe Street
30 miles outside of El Paso, name comes from the huecos pits that catch rainwater. Many pictographs are found here from the Jornada Mogollon tribe, many of which are thousands of years old. great area for hiking, birding and rock climbing.
PRCA SW International Rodeo
Held every Feb
Rio Grande Valley Ranch
horseback riding
300 Farm Rd ( 915-877-4447)
Cowtown Boots
the largest cowboy boot store in the world
11401 Gateway ( 915-593-2929 )
www.cowtownboots.com
750 Sunland Dr
801 Texas Ave
Large antiques and art gallery
Chico's Tacos
Chico's Tacos is a small restaurant chain located in El Paso, Texas.Founded on July 4, 1953 by boxing promoter Joe Mora, Chico's has entered into local legend for its rolled tacos, a special tomato soup-like sauce, as well as its low prices. Chico's Tacos has since expanded to five El Paso locations, primarily on the town's east side. Since Mr. Mora's 1992 death, the restaurants continue to be run by his surviving children.
4230 Alameda Ave
El Paso, TX 79905
(915) 533-0975
Voted "Best Steak in El Paso" by El Paso Times readers every Year
Approximately 35 minutes from Downtown El Paso. Take Interstate 10 east, make a left turn at Fabens Exit 49, go 5 miles north into the desert.
Barbecue on the Texas-New Mexico line
1222 Sunland Park Dr., El Paso
(915) 581-3371
True Thai Restaurant
4309 Fred Wilson Ave Ste B
El Paso, TX 79904-6205
Phone: (915) 564-4300
This is truly the best little hole in the wall.There's about 6 or 7 tables max and the seats are plastic patio chairs. The shrimp Pad Thai is the best as well as the lemon grass soup. Don't leave without trying the sweet rice with mangoes dessert it's delicious.
the only Camino real Hotel outside of Mexico, in the former grand Hotel Paso del Norte (built in 1912 )
800-769-4300
800-228-9290
500 San Francisco St
Stampede
country & tejano
5500 Doniphan Rd
Rosa's Cantina
Made famous by the Marty Robbins 1959 hit " El Paso "
Out in the West Texas town of El Paso
I fell in love with a Mexican girl.
Night-time would find me in Rosa's cantina...
(915) 833-0402
3454 Doniphan Dr
Ciudad Juarez
Ciudad Jiarez is El Paso's sister city across the Rio Grande in Mexico, with a pop of about 2 million. Most visitors that come for a single day choose to park on the US side of the border Near the Stanton Street bridge in downtown El Paso and walk across the bridge . Beginning January 1, 2008 the United States Federal Government will require that all travelers entering the United States from all Mexican points of Entry have a valid passport.
El Paso is a popular starting point to visit Copper Canyon ( Barranca del Cobre) in Mexico .Copper canyon is larger and deeper than the Grand Canyon in the United States .You can either pick up the Copper Canyon railroad in Chihuahua or in Los Mochis. The train ride is lauded as one of the most spectacular in the world . Agencies that offer tour packages from el Paso are :
www.texasoutside.com/elpaso/coppercanyon.htm
1. What is the population of El Paso ?
a. 1,002,054
b. 609,415
c. 257,000
d.758,974
2. Present day Ciudad Ju?ez, Mexico was settled by 1659 by Spanish conquistadors,what Indian tribe kept them from expanding the city acros the Rio Grande into present day El Paso ?
a. Aztecs
b. Manso
c. Apache
d. Pueblo
3. What was the name of the marshal in the famous ' Four Dead in Five Seconds Gunfight 'of 1881 ?
a. McGee
b. Stoudenmire
c. Hemmings
d. Rayson
4. When did the Salt War of San Elizario take place ?
a. 1868
b. 1899
c. 1901
d. 1877
5. what year did the Sun Bowl start in El Paso ?
a. 1936
b. 1953
c. 1949
d. 1962
6. The Margarita was invented at Tommy's Place Bar on July 4, 1945 in El Paso by
a. Pepe franklin
b. John Thompson
c. Tom Place
d. Pancho Morales
Trivia Answers
1.What is the population of El Paso ?
b. 609,415
2. Present day Ciudad Ju?ez, Mexico was settled by 1659 by Spanish conquistadors,
what Indian tribe kept them from expanding the city acros the Rio Grande into present day El Paso ?
c. Apache
3. What was the name of the marshal in the famous ' Four Dead in Five Seconds Gunfight '
of 1881 ?
b. Stoudenmire
4. When did the Salt War of San Elizario take place ?
d. 1877
5. what year did the Sun Bowl start in El Paso ?
a. 1936
6. The Margarita was invented at Tommy's Place Bar on July 4, 1945 in El Paso by
d. Pancho Morales