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Growing Up in El Paso, TX

A Song, a Movie, and a City

April 24, 2024
Mary Ann Goodnight

I Accepted a Challenge: Researching and Writing Mary Ann Goodnight’s Story

Growing Up in El Paso, TX

Phyllis George, the Girl-Next-Door Who Became Miss America

Growing Up in El Paso, TX

Los Lagartos Fountain, What Happened to the San Jacinto Alligators?

Growing Up in El Paso, TX

El Paso, the World of Guyrex

An old vintage photograph of two men walking

The Bindle Stiff

By Jane Little Botkin | Oct 27, 2018
When I was a kid at Halloween in El Paso, Texas, I often resorted to the easiest costume I could ...
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Anniversary of the Everett Massacre

By Jane Little Botkin | Nov 5, 2018
Today is the anniversary of a horrific incident (which seems too mild of a word to use), where innocent men ...
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A woman with long hair smiling

Jane Street and the Rebel Maids: Sex, Syndicalism, and Denver’s Capitol Hill

By Jane Little Botkin | Feb 1, 2019
Moving along quickly on my new book, that is what I can tell you. Hence my absence from the blog! This is ...
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A book entitled Copper Stain on a white background

Growing up with ASARCO, EL Paso, TX

By Jane Little Botkin | Feb 10, 2019
The University of Oklahoma Press recently released a new book that certainly caught my attention. Copper Stain, by Elaine Hampton and Cynthia ...
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