old west

New Mexico Ghost Towns

Dawson, New Mexico

Ghost towns litter the back roads in New Mexico. Miners settled most of these abandoned communities, extracting a variety of precious minerals and ores...

People

Mescalero Apache

Mescalero Apache The Mescalero's call themselves Shis-Inday, “People of the Mountain Forests," or Mashgalénde / Mashgalé-neí / Mashgalé-õde, “People close to the mountains." Spanish settlers...

New Mexico Ghost Towns

Elizabethtown

New Mexico has an enormous amount of intriguing fodder for “based on a true story” westerns should that genre ever come back into style....

New Mexico History

Colfax County War

Land grants, water rights, and property ownership have consistently been a point of contention and ongoing conflict in New Mexico, long before the region...

People

Lucien Maxwell | The Maxwell Land Grant

The allure and opportunities of the American west attracted countless adventurous souls in the 1800s. A host of larger than life characters populate the...

People

Clay Allison | “The Shootist”

Clay Allison | The “Shootist” The American West was a complicated place. It is often depicted in simplistic terms, the white hat vs. black hat...

New Mexico History

Charles Kennedy | Serial Killer on the Taos Trail

Like many of the raucous, unruly mining areas in New Mexico, the Moreno Valley had its share of disreputable characters and gruesome stories. However,...

People

The Hermit

The Organ Mountains are north of Las Cruces. They are stunning volcanic creations; peaking with fluted spires rising sharply from the surrounding plains. The...

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