old west

New Mexico Ghost Towns

Dawson, New Mexico

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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”

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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

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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

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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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