Editor's Letter: 100 Strong
ONE HUNDRED YEARS AGO, the goals of the New Mexico Highway Journal were rather simple. In July 1923, that 16-page debut issue of what was to become New Mexico Magazine aspired to present some of the…
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Category: 100th Anniversary
Why We Love NM: Our Adobe Homes Are Timeless
ARTISTS’ PAINTINGS AND OLD PHOTOS IN BOOKS capture the soft forms of adobe houses, melding like loaves of horno bread into the New Mexico landscape. Their scale and proportion in these depictions are…
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Why We Love NM: Our Dirt Roads Go Everywhere
I LOVE DIRT ROADS FOR ALL THE USUAL REASONS: the chance they offer to go into and through pristine wilderness, over mountains and through canyons, across rims and ridges where we are immersed in…
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Memories: Three Feet Wide
“GRANDPA, WHY DO TRAINS need three tracks to run on?” That naive question by a little boy of eight unlocked a storehouse of memories thousands of miles long but seldom over three feet wide. “Well…
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Laughing Horse Man
WILLARD "SPUD" JOHNSON WAS A SELF-EFFACING MAN who often spoke with profound silences, so it is understandable that much of what he did would go unnoticed for so long. It is a pity, nevertheless, for…
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All in a Day at Capulin Volcano
HAVE YOU EVER WONDERED what it's like to walk inside a volcano and explore it? You don't have to travel to faraway lands for such an adventure. At Capulin Volcano National Monument in northeastern New…
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Mescal Roast
THE CRISP DAWN LIGHT of mid-May sparkles as 20 or so Mescalero Apaches amble across the dusty Chihuahuan Desert in search of a thorny-leafed succulent called mescal. Some carry hatchets, others tote…
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The Real Elfego Baca
IF ELFEGO BACA—who once held 80 rampaging Texas cowboys at bay for 36 hours—had lived to see his life portrayed in the Walt Disney TV-series [Elfego Baca], he would have enjoyed it immensely. He might…
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Las Acequias
IN THE EARLY SPRING LIGHT, the village of Nambé seems to secretly sigh, awaken, and then exhale the breath and promise of new life. Despite the obvious changes that contemporary life brings to many of…
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Lawrence of New Mexico
THERE ARE FEW PEOPLE in whom the sense of wonder is quick and joyous after the early childhood years have passed, and even many children nowadays seem to have it left out of them. One sees so many…
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