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What are the Staked Plains?

by | Jun 19, 2012 | Uncategorized

                  What are the Staked Plains? Steve Mowery Logan, Ohio The Staked Plains are in eastern New Mexico and northwest Texas near Lubbock. When Coronado’s Expedition went searching for the “Seven Cities of Gold” in the 1540s, the natives in New Mexico told them to look “farther east.” The plan was to get them out in the hot, dry, desolate country in hopes they would perish. Coronado named th


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