Jim Franco, owner of the New Mexico Piñon Coffee Company in Albuquerque, knows espressos. He also knows lattes and mochas. In fact, he’s been around coffee one way or another since he was four years old, when his New York City coffee roaster-relative began baby-sitting for him. In 1977, Jim joined a New York coffee and tea store, where he worked until a 1993 vacation to New Mexico persuaded him to move to Albuquerque. Shortly after arriving, Jim met Allen Price, who owned a used bookstore

January/February 2004
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- New Mexico Piñon Coffee Company
- Narcissa Whitman
- Vera’s Cowboy Done Her Wrong
- From Wild Women to the Wild Plains
- A River Runs Through History
- When did American cowboys stop wearing Levi jeans?
- Did Cole Younger have any children? I ask because a doctor in town comes into my barbershop and claims to be his great-grandson.
- Breaking Out More Shovels
- Zip Zapped!
- Striking Similarities
- Chisholm Trail Heritage Center
- Jack Elam (1919-2003)
- Not Just Another Pretty Voice
- Those Singing Cowboys
- Deadwood Drama
- Vera’s Cowboy Done Her Wrong
- I’ve heard there was a passenger on the Titanic named William P. Longley, and that someone from the family of Wild Bill Longley identified the traveler as the outlaw. Evidently, Longley faked his death only to sink along with the Titanic. Is that true?
- How did Martha Jane Canary acquire the nickname “Calamity?”
- Did the old stagecoach route between Benson and Tucson follow what is today’s I-10?