Visit the Pecos West Cyclorama
THERE GO A COUPLE of coyotes, snouts raised to the sky. Now a trio of bighorn sheep climb a mesa. Here come some outlaws on horseback, galloping past a bank. At the Aztec Museum & Pioneer Village…
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Category: History
Past Meets Present at Fort Stanton
“THIS PLACE IS A BEAST,” says Oliver Horn, Fort Stanton Historic Site’s regional manager. We’ve just begun our tour of the 240-acre property nestled in the Río Bonito Valley between the Capitán…
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Gustave Baumann’s Art Lives On
FOR MORE THAN 40 YEARS, artist Gustave Baumann tried to get his passion project, Little Saints of New Mexico, published. But a circuitous route full of obstacles prevented his artistic homage to the…
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Unearthing the Atari Tomb
IN FALL 1983, an industry-wide video game crash left Atari with an entire El Paso warehouse full of unsold inventory, including hundreds of thousands of copies of E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial—often…
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Time to Check Out the Pancho Villa Clock
AT 4:11 A.M. ON MARCH 9, 1916, the railway clock at the Columbus train depot was silenced forever when a bullet struck its face and pierced the gears. The predawn hour marks the onset of Mexican…
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Meet Carrizozo's 400-Year-Old Juniper
IN THE STRIKING landscape of the Valley of Fires Recreation Area near Carrizozo, a gnarled attraction draws nature lovers and history buffs alike: a juniper tree estimated to be more than 400 years…
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The Story Behind the $CRAP$ Shrine
THIS SUMMER, the high desert near Taos got a little quirkier with the appearance of the $CRAP$ Shrine. Inspired by roadside Greek chapels, artist Tony Stamolis constructed the small concrete-and-adobe…
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History Takes Flight in Hobbs
YOU MIGHT THINK it’s the real thing: A World War II Boeing B-17 bomber surrounded by crews preparing for takeoff. But this flying fortress—located on what once was Hobbs Army Airfield, where…
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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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A Timeline of New Mexico's Film and TV History
1898 Indian Day School (Thomas A. Edison, Inc.) Less than a minute long, the first film shot in the territory shows children entering and exiting Isleta Indian School. Early 1900s The industry gets…
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