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On the Trail of Sheriff Pat Garrett

by | Jan 1, 2008 | Travel & Preservation

From Amarillo, Texas, to Las Cruces, New Mexico.
I have to use the bathroom. More information than you need to know, but be warned: Nature’s Call can be troublesome in this part of the country. After all, the man whose trail I’m following got killed near here. “Death by irrigation,” I heard historian Fred Nolan say a while back. Yep, it was over in Alameda Arroyo a century ago, February 29, 1908, when Pat Garrett op


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