Where the Creosote Blooms
Rodge, Mary King![Where the Creosote Blooms](https://support.digitalhusky.com/media/annotations/sorted/445/44560454/CHSBZCOP0344560454.jpg)
For a child growing up in the 1920s, El Paso seemed to be full of off-beat characters and warm personalities: from a diverse group of servicemen and their families stationed at Fort Bliss to tuberculosis patients attracted by the dry desert climate. Mary Rodge's father, a dye man in the cotton-mill industry, moved the family to El Paso in 1924 when he was offered a job there. Rodge's memoir begins with her family's hazardous road trip across t...