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Julian Dossett

is a freelance writer in Silver City, where he enjoys hiking around the Gila National Forest. He drives to Albuquerque whenever he can to catch Isotopes baseball. 

Running the Animas River

FROM THE PENNY LANE Access Point in Farmington, rafters can see where the lazy pace of the Animas River abruptly ends in churning rapids. The highlight? An eight-foot drop at the culmination. “It’s…

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Explore San Juan County

I’M POISED ON A SANDY riverbank in the heart of Farmington, at the point where the Animas and San Juan rivers converge. A distant birdcall pierces the quiet rumble as translucent green water pushes up…

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Music Makes Summer Go Round

MAY 31 Eliza Gilkyson. The Taos-based folk artist has recorded more than 25 albums, including last year’s Home, in her career. “She’s just a stupendous singer-songwriter,” says Neal Copperman…

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On the Lookout

A STATUE OF LUCIEN B. MAXWELL—seated, rifle across his legs—keeps watch over the northwest corner of Cimarrón Park. One of the largest contiguous landowners in United States history, Maxwell once…

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Clovis Cranks Up the Volume

WITH 90 MINUTES UNTIL SHOWTIME, parking is already scarce at the Curry County Events Center. I hurry toward the front gates, passing out-of-towners as they help their children down from dusty pickups…

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How Roswell Got a Moon Rock

A SMALL HUNK OF ROCK from the moon’s Taurus–Littrow Valley sits on display at the Roswell Museum as a tribute to Robert H. Goddard’s early work in rocket propulsion. A New England native, Goddard…

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