Trace the Goodnight-Loving Trail
WHERE LONGHORNS ONCE kicked up red dust, oil pumpjacks known as “nodding donkeys” now pepper the land along the Pecos River, from the Texas border to up past Artesia. The opportunity to turn hard work…
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Tag: Culture & History
What We’re Reading: Pasó por Aquí and The Desire of the Moth
WRITER, COWBOY, RANCHER, miner, and army scout Eugene Manlove Rhodes (1869–1934) is remembered today for little more than coining the phrase “the land of enchantment.” A recent reissue of two of his…
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Where Route 66 Still Moves
ON A WEEKEND NIGHT on Central Avenue, Route 66 does not feel historic. It feels active. Cars move slowly beneath old motel signs and storefront lights, an Impala rolling low, a Monte Carlo on wire…
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Route 66 Through Vintage Postcards
TUCUMCARI MOUNTAIN (ABOVE), 1938 “This card is pure Americana,” Lambert says. “As indicated by the messages on many other cards, heading west on Route 66 and seeing Tucumcari Mountain for the first…
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Inside the Wingfield House Museum
THE SOUND OF the Wingfield Heritage House Museum screen door slamming shut on a sunny March morning delights Susan Lutterman. It sounds just like the original, she says, and evokes memories of her…
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Visions of Petaca
IN SOME WAYS, it was a strange choice for these politically active twentysomethings to settle in Petaca: The town was home to about 50 very traditional Hispano Catholic families with roots in the area…
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Explore the Reach of Chaco Culture
FOR ANCESTRAL PUEBLOAN PEOPLE, Chaco Canyon may have been a central place, but the culture spread across the present-day boundaries of four states. Hundreds of additional communities share Chaco’s…
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Life Is Beautiful in Mesilla
THE ARMCHAIR IN THE SALA GRANDE holds nothing but sunshine. Its otherwise emptiness speaks to the loss of the man who once held court here, mere steps off the Mesilla Plaza. Since 2003, when J. Paul…
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Hard Truths in Quilts
SUSAN HUDSON, AN ARTIST AND lifelong quilter, wants you to know she is an activist. Quilting and fighting for social justice might not seem to readily go together, but in Quilted Survivance, a current…
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What We’re Reading: Brothers of the Gun
SOME TRUE TALES of the Old West are so fascinating that they deserve to be told by fresh storytellers. Although there is no shortage of books on the friendship between lawman Wyatt Earp and…
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