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Gambling/Organized Crime

Borderlands Sources

• There are a group of articles that touch on this topic in El Paso's history, from the city's start, to the present day. 

Handbook of Texas Online

• Copper Production
   
• El Paso and Northeastern Railroad
   
• Texas State Industrial Union Council (labor organizing in the 1940s, strike in 1946)

Library Catalogs

• EPCC Online Catalog

• UTEP Library Catalog

• Labor rights are civil rights : Mexican American workers in Zaragosa Vargas.   TM: HD8081.M6 V36 2005 
   

• El Paso Public Library Catalog

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

Books on Reserve (list of standard books)

Password (Journal of EP Historical Society) and its Archives

Google Books

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

UTEP's Institute of Oral History

• No. 383 HOLGUIN, Antonio (1897 - ) worker at Phelps Dodge Refinery
   
• U.S.-Mexico Border Labor History collection (95 interviews with workers on both sides)  

Local and National Newspapers

Library of Congress Memory Project

 

 

 

page compiled by Rachel Murphree
Last updated 10/15/2008
 

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, English Professor and Borderlands Project Director, EPCC
Monica Wong, Website Project Coordinator, Head Librarian,  Northwest Community Library,  EPCC
Joe Old, Technical Consultant, ITAC Project
Mary Sarber,  Lorely Ambriz, and Library Staff.
Rachel Murphree, web weaver

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