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Northeast

August 20, 2026

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In December 1888, about 200 members of El Paso’s elite rode the newly built Kansas City, El Paso and Mexico railroad to the end of its first 10-mile stretch, where they found a mesa with mountain views, sweet water from new wells, mild weather, and fertile grassland. The site, later identified with…

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