Forty Years at El Paso: The full title of the book is Forty Years at El Paso 1858-1898

Instead the book consists of a series of vignettes of the author's life while he was living there. The vignettes could have taken place anywhere else in Texas, or even in Whistlestop, Nebraska.
The full title of the book is Forty Years at El Paso 1858-1898: Recollections of War, Politics, Adventure, Events, Narratives, Sketches, etc, which give a better idea of what it is about. Some of the stories from the table of contents