Border Patrol - Camp Chigas- El Paso, Texas 1937
Patrulla Fronteriza Camp Chigas - El Paso, Texas 1937

Border Patrol - Camp Chigas- El Paso, Texas 1937

Border Patrol - first Border Patrol Academy Class made up of recruits from the entire Mexican Border. Photograph taken in 1937 at Camp Chigas located in the Chamizal area. Only identified - Front Row - Griffith McBee and H.C. Horsley - Fourth and Fifth from left. Photograph of one woman in the middle - surrounded by men in the photograph.

Area: Central / Chamizal

Source: Border Patrol Museum

Uploaded by: El Paso Museum of History

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30 March 2020 by Eva Ross

March is Women's History Month.

30 March 2020 by Eva Ross

March is Women's History Month.

22 October 2017 by Eva

Photo in taken in El Paso Texas shows one woman among large group of first Border Patrol Academy class 1937..

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