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					  <title><![CDATA[The Luna Valley Ruins-attempting to preserve ten rooms and a great kiva]]></title>
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The high valley in which the tiny town of Luna, New Mexico, sits is surpassingly beautiful. The San Francisco River courses by under enormous cottonwood trees, and the green valley stretches between piney mountains. Luna itself, rustic and basic, could hail from an era when cowpokes rode alongside their herds, ropes a-twirl, spurs flashing in the sunlight.
Actually, an even more radical time shift is required of the visitor who would take in everything Luna has to offer. With the re-opening of the Hough Ruin (pronounced HUFF), one must stretch one's imagination 700 years back in time, when another civilization peopled this lovely valley.]]></description>
					  <author>no@spam.com (Drusilla Claridge)</author>
					  <pubDate>Thu, 21 Jun 2007 11:21:21 PDT</pubDate>
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					  <title><![CDATA[The Bursum Road]]></title>
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The Bursum Road runs through the middle of Mogollon. Photo by Carla DeMarco
One of my favorite drives is along the Bursum Road, which turns east from Hwy 180 about 4 miles north of Glenwood and climbs to Mogollon, Willow Creek, and Snow Lake. The Bursum Road takes the traveler from desert heat at the San Francisco River to alpine woods of aspen and fir in the Mogollon Mountains. 
It came as a surprise to find out that not everyone finds this enchanting drive the perfect summer outing. What's the problem?]]></description>
					  <author>no@spam.com (Drusilla Claridge)</author>
					  <pubDate>Thu, 21 Jun 2007 11:20:20 PDT</pubDate>
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					  <title><![CDATA[The North Star Road]]></title>
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					  <description><![CDATA[The North Star Road (Forest Route 150 on the Gila National Forest map), an unpaved road connecting New Mexico's Mimbres Valley with Wall Lake, has an undeserved bad reputation. On checking with the Mimbres Ranger Station, I was cautioned to use a high clearance vehicle. I have driven the entire route several times, only once with a high clearance vehicle. I cross-examined the Forest Service person about creek crossings and they all seemed to be fine, so I gassed up my Subaru wagon. We loaded it with a picnic supper and took off]]></description>
					  <author>no@spam.com (Drusilla Claridge)</author>
					  <pubDate>Sun, 21 Dec 2003 03:28:29 PST</pubDate>
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					  <title><![CDATA[Voices of the Wind-life in a Gila Wilderness lookout tower ]]></title>
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					  <description><![CDATA[From the tower we could see much of the Gila's three million acres. Visible over the treetops were wooded hills, bare mesas, canyons and ridges, and Gila Cliff Dwellings National Monument. To the west, the Mogollon Mountains glowed in the sunset at 11,000 feet. To the north were the bare and lonesome Plains of San Agust&iacute;n, cut by curiously shaped hills.]]></description>
					  <author>no@spam.com (Drusilla Claridge)</author>
					  <pubDate>Sat, 11 Jan 2003 23:46:01 PST</pubDate>
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					  <title><![CDATA[Mogollon-off the beaten path ]]></title>
					  <link>http://www.southernnewmexico.com/articles/114/1/Mogollon-off-the-beaten-path-/Page1.html</link>
					  <description><![CDATA[Flatlanders need not apply. The road to Mogollon, known as the Bursum Road, climbs 2,080 feet from the San Francisco River Valley to the old ghost town, nestled in the Mogollon Mountains. “That doesn’t sound so bad,” you might say, but the climb is seven miles in length - over 2,000 feet in seven miles, and not one of the switchbacks has guardrails. ]]></description>
					  <author>no@spam.com (Drusilla Claridge)</author>
					  <pubDate>Sat, 11 Jan 2003 04:22:45 PST</pubDate>
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					  <title><![CDATA[The Palace Hotel]]></title>
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					  <description><![CDATA[For attractive, comfortable, and convenient lodgings in Silver City, no place surpasses the Palace Hotel. The hotel's charm combines old world elegance with down home Western comfort. Situated on the corner of Broadway and Bullard Streets, the heart of downtown Silver City's historic district, the Palace Hotel is within walking distance to shops, galleries, and restaurants.]]></description>
					  <author>no@spam.com (Drusilla Claridge)</author>
					  <pubDate>Sat, 11 Jan 2003 04:11:15 PST</pubDate>
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					  <title><![CDATA[Victorio]]></title>
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					  <description><![CDATA[Victorio's Mimbres Apaches were concentrated family units which had once populated the Mimbres and Gila Rivers, and Mogollon Mountains. Through attrition from contact with encroaching Spanish, Mexican, and American settlers, their numbers dwindled, and in 1870 the Mimbres Apaches were given a small reservation, Ojo Caliente or Warm Springs, northwest of present Truth or Consequences.]]></description>
					  <author>no@spam.com (Drusilla Claridge)</author>
					  <pubDate>Thu, 09 Jan 2003 22:07:01 PST</pubDate>
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					  <title><![CDATA[Lugging Rocks at Rockhound State Park]]></title>
					  <link>http://www.southernnewmexico.com/articles/208/1/Lugging-Rocks-at-Rockhound-State-Park/Page1.html</link>
					  <description><![CDATA[I used to lug rocks home. I saw a work of art in the form of an easily pocketed little rock, and just had to claim it for my own. In the Southwest one finds so many interesting rocks, this is a common response to a stroll in the country. You can't do this just anywhere, believe it or not - the Park Service doesn't permit it in the National Parks, for example. There are places where rocks should not be picked up: At Trinity site, where the first atomic bomb was detonated, a green glass, 'trinitite,' was created by the blast, and though visitors were begged not to pick it up, they did, and it's all gone. ]]></description>
					  <author>no@spam.com (Drusilla Claridge)</author>
					  <pubDate>Wed, 08 Jan 2003 04:15:49 PST</pubDate>
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					  <title><![CDATA[Steins - a Railroad Ghost Town]]></title>
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					  <description><![CDATA[Sometimes the unseen hand of fate descends to arrange a unique opportunity. When visiting Steins (pronounced Steens) Railroad Ghost Town, just off I-10 in southern New Mexico near the Arizona state line, I had the chance to take a rare photograph.]]></description>
					  <author>no@spam.com (Drusilla Claridge)</author>
					  <pubDate>Sat, 21 Dec 2002 03:40:50 PST</pubDate>
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					  <title><![CDATA[The Johnson Massacre]]></title>
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					  <description><![CDATA[Certain stories are so evocative of time and place, they enter a zone of both fiction and common knowledge. The story of the Johnson Massacre is such a story. It has been retold in books and magazines claiming to report real life in early New Mexico. The story has been borrowed by the movies, for its dramatic qualities give themselves to the medium of film. Let me tell you the legend, and the real incident which gave rise to it.]]></description>
					  <author>no@spam.com (Drusilla Claridge)</author>
					  <pubDate>Sat, 21 Dec 2002 01:06:12 PST</pubDate>
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