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McGinty Club Rainmakers

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McGinty Club Rainmakers

August 20, 2026

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In 1891, during one of El Paso’s worst droughts in eleven years, the U.S. Department of Agriculture sent rainmakers to the city in an effort to induce rainfall. R.C. Dyrenforth, a Civil War veteran who believed…

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