by
Patricia Baker Laflin, Coachella Valley Historical Society
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2008
Located halfway between Los Angeles and Yuma, Arizona, Indio came into being as a railroad town in 1876 when the Southern Pacific Railroad completed this last link in its southern transcontinental route. Settling this arid land took ingenuity and courage, and Indio�s early residents had both. In the...