Cuchillo Crusader

A family of wild turkeys is to thank for Josh Bond and his heroic efforts to save an abandoned town almost everyone has overlooked. It was 14 years ago that this born and reared New Mexican—then 23 years old and a new resident of Truth or Consequences—stopped his car to let wild turkeys pass. He found himself in the unthriving town of Cuchillo. In the heart of town he found what he says “passed for a strip mall in the 1800s”—a bar, mercantile, post office, feed store and in