Dust, Death and Disability
Dust storms undoubtedly inspired heroic resolve in some pioneers committed to the land, while causing madness, disease and disability in those less able to cope with this chaotic distuption of their lives. The dust from such storms will vary in composition and...
Uno, Dos, Tres!
October 28, 1884 While visiting Upper Frisco Plaza in western Socorro County, New Mexico, 19-year-old Elfego Baca is asked to arrest a drunken cowboy, 22-year-old Charles McCarty, for firing his pistol in Milligan’s saloon. The cowboy shoots the unarmed Baca’s hat...
The Tunstalls Return
You could call the visit a “belated family reunion.” Five members of a proper English family gathered in a New Mexico canyon in July 2010 on an oppressively hot day, quite unlike the 70-ish summer climate of the United Kingdom. The visitors were uncomfortable, but not...
Outerwear Out West
“A genuine mountaineer is a…kind of sui genus, an oddity, both in dress, language and appearance, from the rest of mankind.” “Associated with nature in her most simple forms by habit and manner of life, he gradually learns to despise the...
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