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*Decorme, Gerardo, S.J.
n.d.    “A Short History of Ysleta,” pamphlet for the Ysleta Mission.

n.d.    “Las Misiones del Valle del Paso, 1659-1960, Tomo II, Epoca Moderna 1821-1960,” Unpublished manuscript, by Father Gerald Decorme of Ysleta Mission, 50-pages typed manuscript made June 26, 1962 and undated, prepared for the El Paso County Historical Society.

n.d.        “Excepts From La Misiones Del Valle Del Paso Texas, 1536-1950” Father Gerard Decorme, Ysleta Mission, 71-pages typed manuscript in Spanish, prepared for El Paso Historical Society, Copy made Jan. 26, 1962.

n.d.    “The Life in the Valley of El Paso in 1850,” no date, unpublished 6-page-typed manuscript (University of Texas at El Paso).

n.d.    “The Oldest Towns of Texas "Socorro, 1680-1683; Isleta, 1682-1684," MSS unpublished (University of Texas at El Paso).

Drain, Thomas A.
1994    A Sense of Mission, Historic Churches of the Southwest, Foreword by N. Scott Momaday, Photographs by David Wakely and Text by Thomas A. Drain, Chronicle Books, San Francisco (132-pages).

Ebright, Malcolm and Dr. Rick Hendricks
2001    “Pueblo League and Pueblo Indian Land in New Mexico, 1692-1846,” Ysleta del Sur Archives, Vol. 4, pp. 93-196, April 2001, El Paso, Texas.

El Paso Chapter, American Institute of Architects (See: Antone, E.H. and M.A. Brown)

El Paso Mission Trail Association (see Flynn, Houser, N.P., Houser I.Q. & Bill Kwiecinksi and Victor Guzman Garcia)

Espinosa, Gilberto
1933    History of New Mexico by Gaspar Pérez De Villagrá Alcalá; translated by Gilberto Espinosa, Introduction by F.W. Hodge, The Quivira Society, Los Angeles (308-pages; reprinted in 1962 by Rio Grande Press, Chicago.

Evans, Conseulo Therese
1989    “An Analysis of Burials from the Old Socorro Mission, Socorro, Texas,” In: The Artifact 27:1. 1989, El Paso Archaeological Society (Master's Thesis, University of Texas at El Paso).

Fewkes, J. Walter
1902        “The Pueblo Settlements Near El Paso,” In: reprint: American Anthropologist, January-March, 1902: 4:1: 57-75, G.P. Putnam’s Sons, New York.

2000        “J. Walter Fewkes Diary Notes 1901, ‘Covering A Trip Through Colorado, New Mexico, West Texas and Chihuahua,’” Edited by Tom Diamond, Transcribed by Irene S. Bechham, In: Ysleta Del Sur Pueblo Archives, Vol. 3, Jan. 2000, pp. 189-305, El Paso.  

Fitzhugh, Bessie Lee
1955    Bells Over Texas, Texas Western Press, El Paso.

*Flynn, Ken
1997    Historic El Paso, An Illustrated History, by Ken Flynn, A Publication of the El Paso Mission Trail Association, Image selection by H.W. “Skip” Clark, Historical Publishing Network, a division of Lammert Publications, Inc., 224 pages (second edition 2004), San Antonio, Texas,.

Fugate, Francis
1952    The Spanish Heritage of the Southwest, Drawings by Jose Cisneros, Text by Francis Fugate, Carl Hertzog, Texas Western Press, El Paso, Texas.

Garcia, Victor Guzman
2003    The El Paso, Texas Mission Valley, 2003 Visitor’s Guide, Community Spirit Marketing and Publishing, El Paso (18-page booklet).

Gerald, Rex
*1966    “Portrait of a Community, Joseph de Urrutia’s Map of El Paso del Norte, 1766,” In: The American West, Summer 1966, Vol. III, No. 3, pp. 38-41 (Research note: Map is from the British Museum, London).

1968    Spanish Presidios of the Late Eighteenth Century in Northern New Spain, No. 7 Museum of New Mexico Research Records, Museum of New Mexico Press, Santa Fe, 59 Pages.

    *State of the Mission of San Lorenzo El Real, Town of Zumas, (translation) unpublished manuscript, 3 Pages.

1970    “The Manso Indians of the Paso del Norte Area,” El Paso, Texas, June 1970, Unpublished Manuscript with 7-pages of text, bibliography, map).

*1974    Aboriginal Use and Occupation By Tigua, Manso, and Suma Indians, in Apache Indians III, A Garland Series, American Indian Ethnohistory, Indians of the Southwest, compiled and edited by David Agee Horr, New York and London, Garland Publishing Inc.

*1975    “An Introduction to Missions of the Paso del Norte Area,” Password, XX:1: 47-58, El Paso.

*1982    The Old Socorro Mission Site, Test Excavations - 1981-82, August 31, 1982, A Report Prepared for the Mission Heritage Association, El Paso, Texas, and the Texas Historical Commission, Austin, Texas (40 Pg. manuscript).

*1988    “Bravo 1795: An Inventory of the Missions of Senecu, Ysleta, and Socorro by Fray Jose Bravo in the Year 1795,” transcribed and translated by Rex E. Gerald and Olympia Caudillo, Password, Vol. XXXIII, No. 1, El Paso, Texas, Spring 1988, pp. 19-37.

1990    “The Collected Papers by Rex E. Gerald, Ph.D.” El Paso Archaeological Society, Inc. In: The Artifact, Volume 28, Number 3, 1990. 83-pages. Contents: In Memoriam, Rex Ervin Gerald. The Old Socorro Mission Site Test Excavations 1981-83. The Tigua Indians of Ysleta del Sur. Missions, Presidios, Haciendas, and Caminos of the Paso del Norte Area. Repor of a U.T. El Paso Mini-Grant to Investigate Prehistoric Fortifications in a Primitive State in the Casas Grandes Area of Chihuahua. Social System Responses to Famine Stress. Appendix: Vita, Rex E. Gerald.

2000    “A History of the Tigua Indians of Ysleta del Sur, Texas,” by Rex E. Gerald, 15 July 1970, El Paso, Texas; In: Ysleta del Sur Pueblo Archives, 2000, pp. 1-42, Vol. 1, El Paso, Texas.

    “The Modern Tigua Indians of Ysleta del Sur, Texas,” 15 July 1970, El Paso; In: Ysleta del Sur Pueblo Archives, 2000, pp. 43-51, Vol. 1, El Paso, Texas.

    “The Suma Indians of Northern Chihuahua and Western Texas,” 15 July 1970, El Paso; In: Ysleta del Sur Pueblo Archives, 2000, pp. 53-86, Vol. 1, El Paso, Texas.

    “The Manso Indians of the Paso del Norte Area,” June 1970, El Paso; In: Ysleta del Sur Pueblo Archives, 2000, pp. 87-99, Vol. 1, El Paso, Texas.
    
2003    “An Introduction to the Missions of the Paso del Norte Area” (reprint of article that appeared in Password, Vol. 20:2, Summer 1975) by Rex Gerald, In: Password, Spring 2004:48:1:3-17, El Paso, Texas.

Hammond, George P. (edited by)
1942    Revolt of the Pueblo Indians of New Mexico and Otermin’s Attempted Reconquest, 1680-1682, Vol. IIII, Introductions of Original Documents by Charmion Clair Shelby, Coronado Cuarto Centennial Publications, 1540-1940, The University of new Mexico Press, Albuquerque.

Harrington, John P.
1909    “Notes on the Piro Language,” American Anthropologist, 2:4:563-594.

Hendricks, Rick (See also Campbell, Elise and Waltz, Vina)
1992    “The Spanish Colonial History of Socorro and San Elizario, Texas,” Center for Anthropological Research, Report No. 92-1, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces.

2000    “Report on Land Tenure in Ysleta del Sur, Las Cruces, New Mexico, 1988,” unpublished report (Note: published by Ysleta del Sur Pueblo Archives, 2000, pp. 141-207, Vol. 1, El Paso, Texas).

Hendricks, Rick and W.H. Timmons
1998    San Elizario Spanish Presidio to Texas County Seat, Texas Western Press, El Paso, 157 pages.

Hertzog, Carl
1981    The Mission Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe del Paso, The Document, A facsimile of the Auto de Fundación, A commentary on the 1659 original and the 1888 handwritten transcript by Adolph F. Bandelier, The Picture, color reproducing by Augustus de Vaudricourt, artist for the International Boundary Commission, published in Emory’s Report, 1857. From the Library, The University of Texas at El Paso.

Hewett, Edgar L.
1940    Handbook of Archaeological History, Landmarks of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico.

1943    “Mission Monuments of New Mexico,” In: Handbook of Archaeological History, Albuquerque, New Mexico


Houser, Nicholas P., Howard Campbell and John Peterson
1993    “The Last of the Mansos,” Nova Magazine, The University of Texas at El Paso, Summer 1993, Vol. 28, No.114, pp. 16-18, El Paso.

Houser, Nicholas P., Perry I. Quinto Houser and Bill Kwiecinski
*2002    “The Path of the Padres, Discover the Historic Missions of the Pass of the North,” Sponsored by El Paso Mission Trail Association, Permanent Display at the El Paso International Airport.

2000-04    Five Exhibits - Los Portales Museum and Cultural Center, San Elizario, Texas: (1) “The Legacy of San Elizario, 1850-1900”; (2) “The San Elizario Salt War, 1877-78”; (3) “San Elizario Presidio Soldier and Apache”; (4) “The Spanish Legacy”; (5) “San Elizario Across the Centuries”. Sponsored by the San Elizario Genealogy and Historical Society and funded by El Paso County private foundations.    

Houser, Nicholas P. (See also Ysleta del Sur Pueblo Archives)
*1966    “The Tigua Settlement of Ysleta del Sur,” The Kiva, Vol. 36, No. 2, Winter 1970, Arizona Archaeological and Historical Society, Inc., The University of Arizona, Tucson, pp. 23-39.

*1979    “Tigua Pueblo”, by Nicholas P. Houser, Handbook of North American Indians, Vol. 9, Southwest, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. pages 336-342,

*1996    “The Making of a Monument, John Houser’s Fray Garcia de San Francisco,” photographs by Jody P. Schwarz, illustrated booklet (21-pages), Published by Cristo Rey Communication and XII Travelers Memorial of the Southwest, El Paso.
    
    Museum Text and Image Selection, Ysleta Cultural Center, El Paso, Texas.

    “Unveiling of a Monument,” Gateway Magazine, (Fray García de San Francisco, Founder of the Pass of the North, 1659), Photographs by Jody P. Schwartz, Vol. 1, No. 1, September 1996, pp. 5-8.

2000    “The Ysleta Grant (To the Place of the Beginning), An Analysis of Land Transactions in the Ysleta Grant during Spanish, Mexican and American Sovereignty,” In: Ysleta del Sur Pueblo Archives, Vol. 2, April 200, 334 pages.

“Images of Ysleta del Sur, Tigua Indians of Ysleta de Sur Pueblo, Historic Images of the Mission and Pueblo,” 48-pages, A Project of Ysleta del Sur Pueblo, (Tigua Tribe of Texas), Dec. 2000, Compilation and text by Nicholas P. Houser, Layout by Perry I. Quinto Houser (Note: This work was also published in Jan. 200 in Vol. 3 of the Ysleta del Sur Pueblo Archives, pp. 1-48).

    “In Search of the Ysleta Pueblo,” Heritage Magazine, Summer 2000, Vol. 18, No. 3, Austin, pages 16-20.

Hughes, Anne E. (See also Ysleta del Sur Pueblo Archives)
*1914        The Beginnings of Spanish Settlement in the El Paso District, (Reprint edition from the April 1914 edition, the University of California Press; This source reprinted with introduction by Dr. Rick Hendrick, pp. 313—381, Ysleta del Sur Archives, 2003, Vol. 5).

Ivey, J.E.    
1988    In The Midst of a Loneliness: The Architectural History of the Salinas Missions, Santa Fe, New Mexico, National Park Service.

Jenkins, Myra Ellen (See also Ysleta del Sur Pueblo Archives)
1972        “Spanish Land Grants in the Tewa Area,” New Mexico Historical Review, 47 (April 1972).

*1973        “The Tigua Indians of Ysleta del Sur During the Spanish Colonial Period,” In: Apache Indians III, A Garland Series, American Indian Ethnohistory, Indians of the Southwest, compiled and edited by David Agee Horr, New York & London, Garland Publishing Co.

*1989        The Pueblo of Ysleta del Sur, unpublished manuscript, 138 pages, Santa Fe, New Mexico.

2000        “History and Administration of the Tigua Indians of Ysleta Del Sur During the Spanish Colonial Period,” by Myra Ellen Jenkins, Deputy for Archives; State Historian, State of New Mexico, Santa Fe, New Mexico, Indian Claims Commission Docket #22C, Intervenor’s Exhibit #47, In: Ysleta del Sur Pueblo Archives, 2000, pp. 101-140, Vol. 1, El Paso, Texas.
    
Jones, Harriot Howze
1972    El Paso a Centennial Portrait, Edited by Harriot Howze Jones, Superior Printing, Inc., El Paso, Texas.

Kelly, Henry W.
1941    “Franciscan Missions of New Mexico, 1740-1760,” Thesis, University of New Mexico Press, April 1941, Albuquerque, New Mexico.

    “Franciscan Missions of New Mexico, 1740-1760,” New Mexico Historical Review, 16:41-69, 1941, Albuquerque, New Mexico.

Kessell, John L. and Rick Hendricks
1992        By Force of Arms, The Journals of Don Diego de Vargas, New Mexico, 1691-93, University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque, New Mexico.

Kinnaird, Lawrence (edited & translated by)
1958        The Frontiers of New Spain, Nicholas de Lafora’s Description, 1766-1768, The Quivira Society, XIII, Berkeley, California.

Kubler, George
1974        The Religious Architecture of New Mexico; in the Colonial Period and Since the American Occupation. Published dissertation. University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque, New Mexico.

Lachaga, José María de
1991    La Misión de Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe del Paso del Norte en Ciudad Juárez, Chih., Libreria Parroquial, Cd. Juarez Chih, Mexico (28-page booklet in color printed in Spanish and available at the Parish Library near Guadalupe Mission).

Leach, Jeff D., Nicholas P. Houser, et al.
1996    “Living on the River’s Edge,” by Jeff D. Leach, Nicholas P. Houser, Robert D. Harrison, John A. Peterson, and Raymond P. Mauldin, Vol. 1, Archaeological Test Excavations at the Ysleta del Sur Pueblo, Texas, Prepared for Ysleta del Sur Pueblo, Archaeological Research Ind. El Paso, Texas, 294-pages with appendix.

1990    “El Camino Real De Tierra Adentro An Archaeological Investigation,” The 1990 New Mexico Historic Preservation Division Survey (Public Report). 55-pages.