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Arbitrators or Agitators: Catholic Clergy of the Borderlands During the Salt Wars

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Article

Publication Date

1-2023

Abstract

In 1877, the “El Paso Salt War” swept the borderlands. While a dispute over access to salt beds east of El Paso was the immediate spark, the Salt War was also the culmination of three decades of conflict over leadership in the Roman Catholic Church.

Publication Title

Southern New Mexico Historical Review

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