Paisano Pass

Historical marker location:

Marfa vicinity, Texas

( From Marfa, take US 67/90 East about 13 mi.)

Marker installed: 1936

Legend recounts that two Spaniards meeting here greeted each other "Mi Paisano" (My Countryman). First known to history when Juan Dominguez de Mendoza camped here on January 3, 1684. Well known after 1850 as a point on the Chihuahua Trail, an emigrant road to California.

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