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Potential topics "Teasers" for Borderlands Research

As we discover information or sources on various topics, some that Ms. Vise has suggested, others that seemed interesting to us, we've put links to pages here.  

• People

• Acosta, Lucy  political organizer/LULAC see Women

• Aldrete, Isaac, politician who broke with "The Ring" in Desert Immigrants

• Black, James, El Paso Morning Times editor

• Chew, Herlinda Wong  Chinese El Pasoan immigrant activist/ grocery store owner and expert in immigration issues in the 1920s-1930s.

• Cleofas Calleros, El Paso historian

• Cohen, Andy and Sid, El Paso baseball greats (ex major league players, UTEP coaches)

• Dudley, Richard M., El Paso mayor 1923-1925, Texas senator before that

• Fox, Chris P. Jr.  newspaper reporter, sheriff

• Garlick, William Henry (Deputy Sheriff) murdered in line of duty in Smeltertown

• Hart, Simeon, 1870s, early founder, mill owner now part of La Hacienda on Paisano near downtown

• Hervey, Fred, two time Mayor (1951-55 and 1973-75), founder of Circle K chain

• Hooten, William J.  (EP Times editor) -- his autobiography resource to check for 20th century figures.

• Kohlberg, Olga Bernstein (we already have Borderlands article on her, but an indepth article could be written)

• Magoffin, Susan Shelby

• Magon Brothers/PLM (Ricardo Flores Magon and Enrique Flores Magon)

• Martinez, Felix  -- most prominent Mexican in El Paso.  arrived 1897.  in Desert Immigrants

• McKee, R.E. contractor

• Nations, Joseph Henry

• Schuster, Michael and family (Eugenia, Steven, Frank)

• Urrea, Teresa  curandera, associate of the Magon brothers  see Women

• Van Horne, Major Jefferson

• Vilas, Walter  physician who performed autopsy on John Wesley Hardin who died Aug 19, 1895, Dr. Vilas also did first vaccinations on diptheria in El Paso.
   

• Places

• Anthony, Texas

• Fort Bayard, NM

• Georgetown, NM

• Pinos Altos, NM

• San Elizario, TX
   

• Organizations, Businesses

• American Legion

• Democratic Party in El Paso

• Father Yermo School

• First Baptist Church

• Second Baptist Church

• Kiwanis Club

• Lions Club

• Peyton Packing (J.C. and Mary Peyton)  see also Labor Movement

• Phelps Dodge Corp (Nichols Copper Co.) see also Labor Movement

• Providence Memorial Hospital/Schuster Family

• Salvation Army

• St. Ignatius  in Desert Immigrants

• Temple Mt. Sinai

• VFW (Veterans of Foreign Wars)

• YMCA

• YWCA
   

• Topics

• Army Camps

• Border Health (Polio, Diphtheria, Cholera, Typhus)

• International Incidents

• Labor Organizing

• Magoffin Ranch/Apache attacks

• Texas Blue Laws

• Women's History