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					  <title><![CDATA[La Mesilla, New Mexico - the last 100 years]]></title>
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					  <description><![CDATA[La Mesilla, New Mexico, has changed little since Billy the Kid and Jesse Evans died at the end of its lusty frontier atmosphere. Thick-walled adobe buildings erected by the remarkable men who trekked the heels of Don Rafael Rules from the heart of Old Mexico to settle in the spawning Rio Grande Valley are much the same as they were when 10-year-old Mary Maxwell, the daughter of one of La Mesilla’s forthright citizens, was carted off by a hungry mountain lion while gathering wildberries.]]></description>
					  <author>no@spam.com (Bill Kelly)</author>
					  <pubDate>Fri, 10 Jan 2003 04:47:48 PST</pubDate>
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					  <title><![CDATA[Bob Orlinger - New Mexico&#039;s killer deputy]]></title>
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					  <description><![CDATA[Bob Olinger’s place in New Mexico history roughly parallels Billy the Kid’s, as overblown as that statement may seem. His own mother remembered him with the following unique phraseology, "Bob was a murderer from the cradle, and if there is a hell hereafter then he is there." ]]></description>
					  <author>no@spam.com (Bill Kelly)</author>
					  <pubDate>Sun, 05 Jan 2003 04:36:18 PST</pubDate>
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					  <title><![CDATA[The Lincoln County War (1878-79) - Competition Wasn&#039;t Welcome]]></title>
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Nomad Indians dominated Lincoln County's population, but it had also been inhabited for hundreds of years along the Rio Grande and its branch by casual settlers. For many years, New Mexico was looked upon by politicians in Washington as an abandoned puppy among the states and territories. In 1874, General Tecumseh Sherman, testifying before the senate committee, thundered from the pulpit, "ownership of the Territory of New Mexico is not worth the cost of defense." 
In 1849, the U.S. Government paid $10,000,000 to the State of Texas to settle the boundary dispute between New Mexico and Texas, spending a small fortune to keep a curb on the ferocious Indians and ruthless cutthroats widespread in the territory. In 1863, the Territory of Arizona was established by cutting off the western half of New Mexico. At the same time the uncivilized boundaries between New Mexico and Colorado were straightened. Arizona depended on the courage and gunslinging skills of imported peace officers along with the full and uncompromising support of the citizenry. ]]></description>
					  <author>no@spam.com (Bill Kelly)</author>
					  <pubDate>Sat, 21 Dec 2002 03:49:36 PST</pubDate>
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