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Children outside a "typical Mexican ranch house" made of adobe in El Paso, 1914.
Courtesy the Portal to Texas History
Scene at the Hueco Tanks circa 1914. The Hueco Tanks are 35 miles east of downtown El Paso and are a square mile of huge, jumbled syenite rock. As the rock dissolved unevenly through time, it formed depressions ("tanks") in the ground that are capable of holding large amounts of water. In the middle of the desert, this awesome waterhole has attracted both humans and animals for millennia. Signs of relatively consistent human habitation go back for thousands of years. After all, in the desert, water is the most precious commodity of all.