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1888 Booklet

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1888 Booklet

August 20, 2026

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An 1888 Guide to El Paso, Texas , published by A.B. McKie and W.M. Edwardy for 25 cents, compressed the city’s early history and commercial prospects into 88 pages. It traced the site’s origins to Ponce Rancho, where Juan Maria Ponce de Leon received land on the north bank of the Rio Grande in 1827…

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