A broken wagon spoke deserves all the credit.
Think about it. Needing to repair their wagon, Eastern artists Bert Geer Phillips and Ernest Leonard Blumenschein stopped at a sleepy little village in 1898, and Taos, New Mexico, has not been the same since.
Phillips and Blumenschein wound up canceling the rest of their New Mexico tour to paint in and around Taos. Phillips stayed, while Blumenschein visited over the years, sharing the news about the place with his artist friends; he didn’t m
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