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Original Airdate: November 22, 1959
Fair Fugitive (Have Gun , Will Travel)
Starring: John Dehner as Paladin
Paladin travels to El Paso, Texas to oversee the transportation of a female fugitive, but Mexican bandits are out and about vexing the local Rangers.
El Paso (the Pass) is a city and the county seat of El Paso County, Texas, United States, in the far western part of the state. El Paso was the largest settlement in New Mexico as part of the Republic of Mexico until its cession to the U.S. in 1848, when the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo specified the border was to run north of El Paso De Norte around Ciudad Juarez. El Paso County was established in March 1850. The United States Senate fixed a boundary between Texas and New Mexico at the 32nd parallel.
During the Civil War, a Confederate presence was in the area until it was captured by the Union California Column in 1862. It was then headquarters for the 5th Regiment California Volunteer Infantry until December 1864. After the Civil War's conclusion, the town's population began to grow as Texans continued to move into the villages and soon became the majority. El Paso itself, incorporated in 1873, encompassed the small area communities that had developed along the river. In the 1870s, a population of 23 non-Hispanic whites and 150 Hispanics was reported. With the arrival of the Southern Pacific, Texas and Pacific and the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe railroads in 1881, the population boomed to 10,000 by the 1890 census, with many Anglo-Americans, recent immigrants, old Hispanic settlers, and recent arrivals from Mexico. The location of El Paso as well as the arrival of these more wild newcomers caused the city to become a violent and wild boomtown known as the "Six Shooter Capital" because of its lawlessness. Indeed, prostitution and gambling flourished until World War I, when the Department of the Army pressured El Paso authorities to crack down moving the trade across the border to Juarez.
Original Airdate: November 22, 1959
Fair Fugitive (Have Gun , Will Travel)
Starring: John Dehner as Paladin
Paladin travels to El Paso, Texas to oversee the transportation of a female fugitive, but Mexican bandits are out and about vexing the local Rangers.
El Paso (the Pass) is a city and the county seat of El Paso County, Texas, United States, in the far western part of the state. El Paso was the largest settlement in New Mexico as part of the Republic of Mexico until its cession to the U.S. in 1848, when the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo specified the border was to run north of El Paso De Norte around Ciudad Juarez. El Paso County was established in March 1850. The United States Senate fixed a boundary between Texas and New Mexico at the 32nd parallel.
During the Civil War, a Confederate presence was in the area until it was captured by the Union California Column in 1862. It was then headquarters for the 5th Regiment California Volunteer Infantry until December 1864. After the Civil War's conclusion, the town's population began to grow as Texans continued to move into the villages and soon became the majority. El Paso itself, incorporated in 1873, encompassed the small area communities that had developed along the river. In the 1870s, a population of 23 non-Hispanic whites and 150 Hispanics was reported. With the arrival of the Southern Pacific, Texas and Pacific and the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe railroads in 1881, the population boomed to 10,000 by the 1890 census, with many Anglo-Americans, recent immigrants, old Hispanic settlers, and recent arrivals from Mexico. The location of El Paso as well as the arrival of these more wild newcomers caused the city to become a violent and wild boomtown known as the "Six Shooter Capital" because of its lawlessness. Indeed, prostitution and gambling flourished until World War I, when the Department of the Army pressured El Paso authorities to crack down moving the trade across the border to Juarez.
