Belly Up to the Old West
Editor's Note: Just over a week after we went to press with the November issue, the owners of the St. James Hotel announced on Facebook that the historic Cimarrón property was closing on September 17…
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Category: History
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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La Nueva Resolana
A FEW SUMMERS AGO l shared a bench with three elderly gentlemen outside the Wal-Mart in Taos. Although I had come into their company as a complete stranger, they seemed oblivious to my presence and…
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Get Tuned in to Truth or Consequences
AT THE GERONIMO SPRINGS MUSEUM, in Truth or Consequences, festive dresses, parade costumes, and photographs of glamorous Hollywood celebrities share space with the museum’s other exhibitions featuring…
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Encounter Stranger Things on These Tours
Southwest Expeditions. Southwest Paranormal Tours offers year-round and specialty tours sure to make your spine tingle. Explore the 1937 Doña Ana County Courthouse and jail or meander through Mesilla…
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Spooky Strolls Through Old Town
AS DUSK DESCENDS upon Old Town and the shadows grow darker, I make my way to Plaza Don Luis. It is still lively with people dining, drinking, and chatting—sounds that have reverberated throughout…
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Uncover Elements of the Past
AS WE GATHER at Fuller Lodge for the History of the Secret City tour in downtown Los Alamos, guide Jim Shipley asks, “So, who’s seen Oppenheimer?” Most of the group of 10—which ranges from a teen to…
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Time Travel with Historical Tours
Pecos National Historical Park. Among the free tours, the daily Ancestral Sites Tour teaches visitors about Ancestral Pueblo and Spanish Colonial history. Three times a week, the Civil War Walking…
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The Story of Clayton's Dragon
THERE’S A DRAGON in Clayton. The seven-foot-long red metal beast slithers in and out of the exterior of a long-vacant building in the center of town. The four-piece dragon was designed, fabricated…
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First Person, Airborne
THE GRIZZLE-ALLISON FAMILY FARMS, where the three sons grew up, were situated in eastern New Mexico, about 30 miles south of Roswell, a city of about 40,000 people in the 1940s, near the small town of…
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