WHEN JORGE SILVA-BAÑUELOS showed National Park Service staff the 40-acre parcel of Sulphur Springs land he wanted to add to the Valles Caldera National Preserve, they were more than a little hesitant…
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IN THE FIRST BLUSH of dawn, the Lordsburg Playa conjures a mirage—a layer of dew rising from its fractured, elephant-skin crust, glistening with bright promise. Maybe the land has learned something, I…
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IN APRIL, Kathryn Mahan and her husband, Jamie Knutson, picked their way over trees strewn across the Rito Chavez Trail #220, near San Ignacio on the eastern slopes of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains…
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"COWBOYS ALWAYS WORE THEIR HATS out of necessity,” says Barney Coppedge, owner of This Ol’ Hat, in Artesia. “To keep the sun off your face and the rain off your head.” After 28 years spent working as…
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FROM THE OUTSIDE, the engine workshop of the historic Cumbres & Toltec Scenic Railroad, in Antonito, Colorado, doesn’t seem like much. Not to my eyes anyway. It takes stepping inside, where the…
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Above: AT&SF 2926 in California pulling the Chief, a passenger train. Photographs by Western Railway Museum Archives. In 1999, when Albuquerque Mayor Jim Baca decided to sell the AT&SF 2926 to the…
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