What We're Reading: Moonlight Elk
BEGINNING IN 2010, Christie Green learned to hunt elk, deer, oryx, turkey, grouse, and quail in the eight eco-regions of New Mexico. Her deeply moving memoir, Moonlight Elk: One Woman’s Hunt for Food…
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Kick Up Your Heels for Vintage Boots
I come from a ranching and rodeo family, so boots have been part of my life forever. We have over 400 pairs of boots. I think at least 250 of those are women’s. We have new and vintage Western wear…
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Step Up Your Custom Boot Game
WENDY LANE HENRY was ready to try something different. By the 1990s, she’d realized her dream of opening a cowboy-boot store, Back at the Ranch, in Santa Fe. But the Western-wear fashion industry was…
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Uncover Farmington’s Arts Scene
A BAND FROM THE NAVAJO NATION takes the open-air stage in downtown Farmington, quickly assembling an altar with animal bones and incense before roiling the mostly Indigenous crowd with the blackest of…
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What We're Reading: Blood Mountain
LOOKING TO GET IN TOUCH with northern New Mexico culture? Dive into the second book in Alisa Lynn Valdés’s bestselling thriller series starring state game warden Jodi Luna. In Blood Mountain (Thomas &…
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The Anatomy of Zozobra at 100
SANTA FE’S FAVORITE 50-foot marionette, Zozobra, is gussying up to attend a special 100th celebration in his honor this month. How little he’s learned after all these years! In the time-honored…
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Take an Immersive Culture Tour
El Rancho de las Golondrinas. The 500-acre historic rancho on the Camino Real is a living history site dedicated to 18th- and 19th-century New Mexico heritage. Daily tours at 10:30 a.m. are guided by…
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The Sky's the Limit at Acoma Pueblo
ONE DAY IN THE 1960S, four men with identical suits and haircuts walked into a house at Acoma Pueblo’s Sky City. Tour ambassador Brandon “Turtle” Valdo, whose family began guiding visitors around…
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What We're Reading: A Luminous Uplift
NORTHERN NEW MEXICO poet John Brandi traverses three continents and 40 years in A Luminous Uplift: Landscape & Memory (White Pine Press). Brandi divides his tome into travelogues of places he’s…
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A Ranch on the Ruidoso
A LONE MAN ON HORSEBACK crosses a dry wash, approaching a bare-bones ranch with a couple of shade trees. Before him, a broad chiaroscuro mosaic of rolling golden foothills, distant purple mountains…
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