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Article: Salt Warriors: Insurgency on the Rio Grande.(Book review)
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- The Journal of Southern History
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- August 1, 2009
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Salt Warriors: Insurgency on the Rio Grande. By Paul Cool. Canseco-Keck History Series, No. ll. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2008. Pp. [xviii], 360. $24.95, ISBN 978-1-60344-016-5.)
The El Paso Salt War of 1877 occurred in the western tip of the American South, in a handful of small border communities strung along the Rio Grande southeast of El Paso del Norte. The Pasenos living in this remote area had, as Paul Cool notes, "long relied upon local institutions to govern themselves" and were also the "inheritors of a long military tradition" (pp. 83, 134). In the late 1870s, many Tejano residents of El Paso County, land that had been part of the ...
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Article: ENVIRONMENT DEPARTMENT RECEIVES PLAN TO INVESTIGATE GROUNDWATER ...
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July 10, 2009 ;
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... ... Environment Department received a Stage 1 Abatement Plan proposal to investigate groundwater contamination at El Paso Electric Company's Rio Grande Power Plant in Sunland Park. The department's Ground Water Quality Bureau required in March that the ...
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