Hachita’s Saint Catherine of Sienna — honoring a mother
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St. Catherine of Sienna church in Hachita. Photo by Phyllis Eileen Banks.
A schoolhouse built in Hatchita, New Mexico, with WPA (Works Progress Administration) funds in the 1930s was overlooked in the Treasures of New Mexico Trails by Kathryn A. Flynn, a book on New Deal Art and Architecture. No [...]
Lordsburg, Hachita, Steins, and Shakespeare — quiet desert beauty
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Desert outside Lordsburg. Photo by Carla DeMarco.
The rugged Old West town known as Lordsburg is located in Southwest New Mexico’s bootheel by Interstate 10, 24 miles east of the Arizona border. The Lordsburg of today is a quiet community compared to its earlier shoot-em-up days. Life was lively and sometimes perilous [...]
Road Forks and Rodeo, New Mexico — just a yodel and a holler away
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Rodeo, New Mexico Photo by Carla DeMarco
Put on a cowboy hat, grab a miner’s pick, and get out your birder’s field glasses. You may have need of them when you explore the three neighboring villages on the border of Arizona and New Mexico’s boot heel – [...]
Animas, Cotton City, and Playas — remnants of the Westward Ho! movement
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The Chihuahuan Desert. Photo by Carla DeMarco.
Cotton and cowboys, cacti and copper, cavalry and coyotes, chile and coatimundi – and the Chiricahua Apaches. All these help characterize the most southwestern part of Hidalgo County, called the Bootheel of New Mexico, where you will find the small communities of [...]
Steins — a Railroad Ghost Town
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Steins, New Mexico. Photo by the Author
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.
We hadn’t [...]
Skeleton Canyon — Echoes of Bugle, War Cry and Gunfire
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Marker on Highway 80 south of Rodeo near Apache,just north of Skeleton Canyon Road
Located in New Mexico’s remote boot heel region, Skeleton Canyon begins in the Peloncillo Mountains on the western edge of the Animas Valley and heads northwest by west to a point where about seven rugged miles later, it [...]
Shakespeare, New Mexico — Don’t Expect Disney
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The Blacksmith shop which was burned in the 1997 fire at Shakespeare.
For travelers on I-10 in Southern New Mexico, there’s an escape from the truck traffic and even from the 20th century: a side trip to the ghost town of Shakespeare, located about three miles south of Lordsburg . [...]
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