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Schaal
POST SANS
NEW MEXICO
of Exchance
ECTOR COUNTY COURT HOUSE
Odessa, Texas
Founded in 1881, it grew up sedately, its settlement by
Methodists prevented the opening of any saloons until
1898. Today an oil town with wide paved streets and
shaded by trees, its greenery contrasting with the
encircling barren treeless plains. Odessa was the home of
"Old Ben'' Sublett, who owned a mystery mine. The
details of the story are colorfully told in J. Frank Dobies'
"'Coronado's Children.''
Color Photo by Franklin E. Schuaf
Published by F. J. Schaaf, Alamogordo, New Mexico
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