The Trinity Site — Day One, double sunrise
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Black and white photo of the Ground Zero tower, displayed along the north fence.Photo by Jim Reed
Day One of the Atomic Age, I imagine during the eighty mile drive from Alamogordo to Trinity Site, New Mexico, was much like today except for the early morning rain postponing the experiment from 4:00 [...]
The Butterfield Overland Mail — stitching the country together
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On a time line, the two and one-half year operation (1857-1861) of the Butterfield Overland Mail was but a flash in the history of transportation in the United States. But this short-lived operation captured and held the imagination of Americans because it stitched together the growing country from sea to [...]
Santa Rita — the town that vanished into thin air
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The mine encroaching on Santa Rita, circa 1915. Photo courtesy Silver City Museum
"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, [...]
Mogollon News — The Libyan Invasion
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Mogollon
You can tell it’s spring. Flowers are blooming. Birds are singing. Days are getting longer. And the wind is blowing.
Armand Tremolo stepped out for a breath of air the other day. However, the air in the vicinity happened to be moving about seventy miles per hour.
Unbeknownst to Armand, at the [...]
Mogollon News — The Balloon
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Mogollon
This past weekend, Armand Tremolo received a visit by his niece, Martina Solari, and her nine children, of Tucson.
Armand, at fifty-seven, has never married. There are no children currently living in Mogollon. Armand is not used to kids. Things generally went all right, however, till Martina realized she had forgotten [...]
Mogollon News — Politics
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Mogollon
The Bloated Goat Saloon closed for the season Thursday before Memorial Day.
Some folks might think it contrary to shut down a public establishment just when tourist traffic is picking up. Some folks don’t know Jim and Melissa Farnsworth, the proprietors.
According to Jim and Melissa, the Bloated Goat just is not [...]
Mogollon News — Winter
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Mogollon
It is winter in Mogollon, and in winter it becomes readily apparent why Mogollon is a ghost town.
At last measurement, the snow on the shady side of the street was eighteen feet deep. This measurement was taken by having Joe Malloney, who is six feet tall, stand with a surveyor’s [...]
Mogollon News — Silver Creek Temperance Society
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Mogollon
Twenty-six people attended the annual meeting of the Silver Creek Temperance Society. That is more than the resident population, let alone nondrinkers. And two of those present did appear to have been exhumed for the occasion.
Elvira Sonderfeld hosted the event, as usual. Her cooking undoubtedly drew the crowd. Everyone was [...]
Mogollon News — Introduction: The Road to Mogollon
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The road to Mogollon
The road to Mogollon is justly notorious. It is not a bad road…not especially rough. And it has been worked on recently. It is not even all that steep. (At least some of it isn’t.) However, with the exception of one flat stretch over the top of Whitewater [...]
Mogollon News — Ice
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The Road to Mogollon
This winter, Joe Malloney decided to go into the ice business. He was well situated with the creek handy and some tanks on the shady side of the street. There was even an abandoned mine behind his house he could use for storage.
Ice looked like just the [...]
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