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					  <title><![CDATA[Santa Rita-the town that vanished into thin air]]></title>
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					  <description><![CDATA["The Santa Rita is, perhaps, the most famous mine in Western America, for it was here that the techniques of copper mining were first developed in the Southwest." So wrote Carey McWilliams in his 1949 book, North From Mexico.]]></description>
					  <author>no@spam.com (John L. Sinclair)</author>
					  <pubDate>Mon, 17 Mar 2003 01:31:29 PST</pubDate>
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					  <title><![CDATA[Grant County Guide]]></title>
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					  <description><![CDATA[Grant County Guide: Information about Apaches, outlaws, prostitution, legends, cattle brands, mining history, hiking, the Gila Wilderness and more.]]></description>
					  <author>no@spam.com (David Burch)</author>
					  <pubDate>Thu, 20 Feb 2003 01:18:41 PST</pubDate>
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					  <title><![CDATA[Pinos Altos, then and now ]]></title>
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					  <description><![CDATA[Pinos Altos (Tall Pines) is located about six miles north of Silver City on NM Highway 15. The townsite is located along the Continental Divide at an elevation of 7,067 feet at the southern end of the Pinos Altos Mountains. Pinos Altos is a very old mining town; it was Grant County's first county seat. ]]></description>
					  <author>no@spam.com (Robert O. Wilson)</author>
					  <pubDate>Mon, 13 Jan 2003 01:43:10 PST</pubDate>
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					  <title><![CDATA[Kneeling Nun Legends]]></title>
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					  <description><![CDATA[The Spanish journeyed to Santa Rita looking for Cibola, the City of Gold, and instead discovered rich deposits of copper, thanks to a friendly Apache chief who showed them where his people had been mining the shiny metal for untold years. The result was the Santa Rita del Cobre . . . and the beginning of the Kneeling Nun legends . . . legends that will likely persist, as long as she continues to grace the landscape above this Southwest New Mexico community.]]></description>
					  <author>no@spam.com (Pam Hendrickson)</author>
					  <pubDate>Fri, 10 Jan 2003 01:52:56 PST</pubDate>
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					  <title><![CDATA[What&#039;s Happening in Silver City]]></title>
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					  <description><![CDATA["The months ahead are filled with exciting events in the Silver City area," according to Camille Clark, the new director for the Silver City Grant County Chamber of Commerce. The Silver City calendar is peppered with exciting events that really capture the romance of this southwestern town. ]]></description>
					  <author>no@spam.com (Erinn Burch)</author>
					  <pubDate>Wed, 08 Jan 2003 03:13:20 PST</pubDate>
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					  <title><![CDATA[El Fierro-the past lives on]]></title>
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					  <description><![CDATA[It's a place where once upon a time the Old and New World came together. Now the past and future are meeting in a little ghost town called Fierro, New Mexico, a few miles north of Silver City in the southwest corner of the state. ]]></description>
					  <author>no@spam.com (Frank Ramirez)</author>
					  <pubDate>Wed, 08 Jan 2003 01:58:21 PST</pubDate>
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					  <title><![CDATA[Catherine McCarty - the mother of Billy the Kid and a jolly Irish lady]]></title>
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					  <description><![CDATA[In 1873, Silver City resident Louis Abraham, a boyhood friend of Henry McCarty as he was known then, described her as a "jolly Irish lady, full of fun and mischief." But for being the mother of Billy the Kid, history would probably never know the name of Catherine McCarty. One hundred and twenty-five years later, history still knows precious little about her.]]></description>
					  <author>no@spam.com (Gordon Fikes)</author>
					  <pubDate>Mon, 06 Jan 2003 03:20:57 PST</pubDate>
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					  <title><![CDATA[Cattle brands of Grant County]]></title>
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					  <description><![CDATA[Drive any of the three main approaches to Silver City and a moment comes when your eye is arrested by a homely, hand-painted billboard showing dozens of cattle brands grouped around the silhouette of a cow. It doesn't take higher math to put two and two together: A lot of Grant County's residents and acreage are in the cattle business.]]></description>
					  <author>no@spam.com (Bill Armstrong)</author>
					  <pubDate>Mon, 06 Jan 2003 02:08:47 PST</pubDate>
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					  <title><![CDATA[Glenwood - for outdoor lovers]]></title>
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					  <description><![CDATA[From 1747 when Spanish explorers discovered Indians farming in the verdant valley until today, visitors have enjoyed the quiet beauty of the San Francisco River country. Glenwood with its quaint shops, motels, and restaurants, is the center of this valley in West Central New Mexico. ]]></description>
					  <author>no@spam.com (Joann Mazzio)</author>
					  <pubDate>Sat, 04 Jan 2003 03:03:14 PST</pubDate>
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					  <title><![CDATA[Alma - once a hideout for notorious outlaw gangs]]></title>
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					  <description><![CDATA[Alma, five miles north of Glenwood on U.S. 180, was a hideout for Butch Cassidy and his gang. when they worked for the W-S Ranch in the 1890s. It is said the gang members were good workers, and Cassidy was even offered a permanent job there. A post office existed from 1882 to 1896, then again from 1900 to1931. Mail now goes to Glenwood. ]]></description>
					  <author>no@spam.com (Phyllis Eileen Banks)</author>
					  <pubDate>Sat, 04 Jan 2003 02:33:40 PST</pubDate>
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