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Rio Grande Valley

August 20, 2026

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W. J. Hooten recounts receiving a rare 1873 Philadelphia publication, Notes on Texas and the Texas & Pacific Railway , found in a Maryland farmhouse and owned by Robert Y. Adams. The excerpt offers a detailed nineteenth-century description of the Rio Grande Valley in El Paso County, praising its…

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