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Chris P. Fox

Sheriff 1933-1942
State National banker and "everyone's "Mr. El Paso"" (per Turning Points)

Borderlands Sources

• McKelligon Canyon article calls him "banker, sheriff, and local author)

Handbook of Texas Online

• As sheriff, deported all union organizers, labeling CIO organizers as communists Texas State Industrial Union Council
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Library Catalogs

• EPCC Online Catalog (be sure to click "find in UTEP" button also)

• Fifty-Two Years a Newsman PN 4874.H63 A34 has pages on Chris Fox as well as footnotes to explore
   

• UTEP Library Catalog

• El Paso Public Library Catalog

• NMSU Library Catalog (especially if you are researching a New Mexico topic)  

Books on Reserve (list of standard books)

• El Paso Chronicles: 257
• Turning Points, p.114

Password (Journal of EP Historical Society) and its Archives

• Wrote many articles for Password, search under his name and check to see if any articles are ABOUT him. I believe these may be pieces about him: notes, i, 3, 31, 79, 110, 113; ii, 2; iii, 127, 138, 139, 141; vi, 66, 77, 99; vii, 5; viii, 4, 35, 119; ix, 123; x, 3, 105, 124; xi, 4, 5, 30n, 75n, 147; xii, 99, 101, 103; xiii, 111, 142, 143; xiv, 5, 99; xv, 80, 117, 149; xvi, 106, 111, 112, 113

Google Books

• Mexican Americans: Leadership, Ideology, and Identity 1930-1960 p.182-185 Available at RG, TM, VV libraries of EPCC E184.M5G375 1989  Section speaks to Sheriff Fox's blocking of union organization of smeltering plants.

EPPL: Border Heritage Center

Call and ask the staff before you go down (915-543-5440), if there is an entry in their vertical file.  This is a collection of photocopied articles on a person or topic.

In addition, check the newspaper card catalog to see other articles available. You would then have to search for the article in the microfilms, ask at the reference desk around the corner from the readers for help.

UTEP Library's Special Collections Department

• Correspondence with Carl Hertzog
• Correspondence with SLA Marshall

UTEP's Institute of Oral History

Local and National Newspapers

Library of Congress Memory Project

Page compiled by Rachel Murphree
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Borderlands is published annually by El Paso Community College, P.O. Box 20500, El Paso, TX 79998. 

It is a collection of student written articles on the history and culture of the El Paso, Juárez, Las Cruces border region, comprising the states of Texas, New Mexico, and the Mexican state of Chihuahua.   This site was created with seed money from the Integrating Technical Contexts into Academic Courses (ITAC) Project, and maintained by the Northwest Community Library staff.  Funds for the program were provided by the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board under the auspices of the federal Carl D. Perkins Vocational and Technical Education Act of 1998.  

Ruth Vise, Borderlands Director, EPCC
Monica Wong, Project Coordinator, Head Librarian,  Northwest Community Library,  EPCC
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