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The Year of the Cowboy

Above: A young cowboy keeps an eye on the rodeo action during the 2013 Truth or Consequences Fiesta. This year’s event is May 5–7, with a parade, live music, and the Sierra County Sheriff’s Posse…

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One of Our 50 Is Missing | May 2017

THE LANGUAGE BARRIER In an attempt to give her high school Spanish students a real-life illustration of the vocabulary they learned, teacher Holly Alexander of Hoover, Alabama, pulled up Santa Fe on…

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Books | May 2017

RIVER OF SPIRITS A Natural History of New Mexico’s Las Animas Creek Edited by Harley G. Shaw (HISTORY PRESS, 2017) Las Animas Creek carved the most rugged portion of the Black Range. For 40 miles, its…

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Earthy Delights

SMOKE POURED FROM THE OVEN and Grandma started having a conniption. Mom wrenched open the oven door and began beating back the flames with a dish towel. It was nothing, she insisted, just a little…

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The Great Unknown

“[The mountains] stand on the western horizon, above the peppered desert, ice-white and Pleistocene in the morning, a flat blue against the sky’s dull red in the dusk. A high plateau lies at their…

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Base Camp: Socorro

Above: The Quebradas Byway promises 30 miles of well-groomed gravel— plus stop-off points for gorgeous hikes. IT'S TIME TO RECONSIDER SOCORRO. Nestled in the Río Grande Valley, near the state’s…

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