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Updated: May 29, 2025
The town of Santa Fe long rows of flat-topped adobes nestling under the mountain was at that day under Spanish rule. Only a few Americans then lived within its limits. It was a thriving, though sleepy, town, as it was the gateway to all Chihuahua. A well-beaten trail left it southward for El Paso, and its main street was lined with cantinas saloons where mescal and tequila ran like water.
Nor did it. The brigand spokesman only grinned sardonically. "You may tell all this to Pesita himself, senor," he said. "Now come get a move on beat it!" The fellow had once worked in El Paso and took great pride in his "higher English" education. As he started to herd them from the hut Billy demurred. He turned toward Bridge. "Most of this talk gets by me," he said.
He never yielded a serious point, never wavered in his adherence to the traditional American policy, and stood by the legal republican government of Mexico even when, reduced to the persons of the President and his minister, Lerdo de Tejada, it was compelled to seek refuge at Paso del Norte.
"There being no reply, the Confederates rode away." In a newspaper of to-day so matter-of-fact an acceptance of an event so tragic would make strange reading. From the South MacIver crossed through Texas to join the Royalist army under the Emperor Maximilian. It was while making his way, with other Confederate officers, from Galveston to El Paso, that MacIver was captured by the Indians.
Dont know nobody but you can give me a hand remember that time down in El paso I was yore freind. Come to old shack by Poison hole tonight & dont tell nobody & bring sum grub Buck remember El paso. "j.c. "p.s. I was yore freind buck." Thornton remembered. He went slowly about his dressing, turning again and again to look at the note he had placed upon his little pine table.
This is directions. Sit down and write me a draft on El Paso." Marsh complied. Peter Johnson inspected the draft carefully. "So much for the bank for to-day, the nineteenth," said Pete. "Now a few kind words for you as the individual, Mr. George Marsh, quite aside from your capacity as a banker. You report to Zurich that I applied for a loan and you refused it not a word more. I'm tellin' you!
"The cock flies out and the hen flies in All hands round and go it agen." In fact, if you want to find the old True West, you'll find it undiluted and pristine on the trip to Taos. Taos, Santa Fe and El Paso these were to the Southwest what Port Royal, Quebec and Montreal were to French Canada, or Boston, Salem and Jamestown to the colonists of the pre-Revolutionary days on the Atlantic.
Doors and windows were closed against the blowing sand, but they could not shut out the voice of the wind. After dinner Annesley tried to read a new book from the library at El Paso, but between her eyes and the printed page would float the picture of a small, open automobile and its driver lost in clouds of yellow sand. Why should she care? The man was used to roughing it. He liked adventures.
The appropriation which was made at the last session of Congress for the continuation of the survey is subject to the following proviso: Provided, That no part of this appropriation shall be used or expended until it shall be made satisfactorily to appear to the President of the United States that the southern boundary of New Mexico is not established by the commissioner and surveyor of the United States farther north of the town called "Paso" than the same is laid down in Disturnell's map, which is added to the treaty.
One of the greatest events in my life was when I found myself surrounded by two tribes of my enemies. This fight was by the El Paso River, and the bands of our enemies wore yellow headgear; the fight continued all day long until about five o’clock, when the Apaches were victorious.”
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