Remembering El Paso
El Paso is a city with an international history and culture that is tied to the Rio Grande. Native Americans followed the river and traded with other groups that lived near it. In 1598, Don Juan de Oñate traveled north with a large caravan from Zacatecas, Mexico, to what became known as El Paso del Norte. Near San Elizario, Oñate claimed the area for Spain, and it became a trade center along El Camino Real, the Royal Highway, which went north all the way to the Española Valley in New Mexico. With the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, in 1848, the Rio Grande became the international boundary between the United States and Mexico, and El Paso became a town of westernmost Texas.
With a selection of fine historic images from her best-selling book, Historic Photos of El Paso, Sandra Fye provides a valuable and revealing historical retrospective on the growth and development of El Paso. Remembering El Paso includes hundreds of images of this great American city, including government, businesses, schools, architecture, military history, and other subjects of historical interest, all showcased in vivid black-and-white.
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Book details
- Text by
- Sandra Fye
- Imprint
- Turner Publishing Company
- Published
- Pages
- 134
- Formats
- Paperback
- Series
- Remembering
- Subjects
- History › United States › State & Local › South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV)
Photography › Subjects & Themes - Topics
- El Paso history · Texas history · historic photography · black-and-white photos · Rio Grande · local history · pictorial history
- ISBN-13
- 9781683368281
About the author
SANDRA FYE is a historian and author specializing in the American Southwest and the author of three books. Her recent books include Remembering El Paso, Historic Photos of El Paso and Historic Photos of Albuquerque.
Fye holds a Bachelor of Arts in Geography, with an English minor, from the University of New Mexico. Her work draws on archival photographs from collections including the El Paso County Historical Society, the El Paso Public Library’s Otis A. Aultman Collection, and the Library of Congress.
When she’s not writing, Fye works to preserve photographs and history for future generations. This commitment to archival sources shapes her approach to documenting the visual and cultural heritage of the American Southwest.