What We're Reading: Fountain Creek
NEW MEXICO MAGAZINE contributor and Pueblo, Colorado, native Jim O’Donnell traces the flow of his hometown watershed in Fountain Creek: Big Lessons from a Little River (Torrey House Press). “The world…
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New Mexico's Chile Nights
NEW MEXICANS TEND to gather outside on December evenings. We want to be among the lights: blazing bonfires on Christmas Eve, little paper-bag-and-sand lanterns all season long, and even the…
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What We’re Reading: Light as Light
“LANGUAGE IS AT THE BASE and core of relating to others,” Acoma Pueblo poet Simon J. Ortiz writes in Light as Light (University of Arizona Press). “Language is motion. Action. Doing. Letting. Sharing…
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Olive Rush Studio Welcomes a New Era
“ONE LOVELY THING about a garden is the way one’s friends enjoy it,” Olive Rush (1873–1966) once wrote to a fellow artist. On a recent evening in Santa Fe, a circle of young people seated under her…
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Remembering Dawson
The road to Dawson is five miles of hard-packed red dirt that runs along the Vermejo River into a network of foothills and canyons. If you’re lucky enough to travel there in summer, you’ll turn off US…
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Juanita’s Final Resting Place
IT TOOK 142 YEARS, or more than seven times her age at death, for Juanita Martinez Garrett (1860–1879) to get a grave marker. The memorial for Lincoln County Sheriff Pat Garrett’s first wife—a…
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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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