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Tucumcari, New Mexico, may be family-friendly today, but like many towns in the West, it had a rowdy start. The Chicago, Rock Island, and Pacific Railroad built a construction camp on Quay County’s western edge in 1901. Originally called Ragtown, numerous gunfights quickly earned the camp the name Six-Shooter Siding. By 1908, the railroad camp was a permanent settlement and it was redubbed Tucumcari (pronounced “TWO-come-carry”) after a nearby mountain.
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Toner Mitchell is the New Mexico Water and Habitat Program Coordinator for Trout Unlimited, a
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Texas-born Morgan Switzer considers herself a New Mexican through and through. She graduated from
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It’s easy to feel comfortable in Hobbs, a southeastern New Mexico city barely a stone’s throw from
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Mesilla, set on the southwestern edge of metropolitan Las Cruces in southern New Mexico, is a
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In 1934, Roderick Mead was studying printmaking at the experimental Atelier 17 in Paris, alongside
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When people think of a bed and breakfast, they often imagine a stately Victorian mansion, dainty
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Rosa Carrillo first visited the small southeastern New Mexico town of Hobbs more than 30 years ago.
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Voted one of North America’s most scenic train rides and one of New Mexico’s most popular
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Larry Henderson, now 83, spent a lifetime working in the national park system.
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