Socorro, Mesilla Valley
August 20, 2026
After the Mexican-American War, the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo set the new U.S.-Mexico boundary to begin eight miles upriver from El Paso, but an inaccurate map and the inexperience of U.S. boundary commissioner John Russell Bartlett complicated the task. Bartlett arrived late in El Paso in 1850…
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