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Pondering the Gold Bar Bandits

by LauraLevesque January 11, 2003 Of Interest

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“How heavy were the gold bars Curly Bill’s gang stole anyway?” Uncle Wayne asked. “Well,” I said, “from what I’ve read the bricks were probably three-hundred pounds each. Made it impossible for pack mules to carry them off in case of a stage robbery.” “Yeh,” Mike said, “it would take two bricks [...]

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Playas

by SusanTweit January 11, 2003 Of Interest

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On these hot, dry June days when the horizon shimmers, set to dancing by the waves of heat that rise from the ground, I think of beaches. Not ocean beaches – playas -desert beaches. Playas are the dry, incredibly level beds of ancient lakes. Found in desert country throughout the southern Southwest and [...]

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New Mexico Snakes — recognizing the poisonous ones and controlling them around homes

by JamesEKnight January 11, 2003 Wild Life

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Snakes are perhaps the most feared and hated animals in New Mexico, but people’s fear of snakes comes from lack of understanding and superstition. Snakes are not mysterious at all, and these fascinating creatures don’t deserve the anxiety many people feel about them. Of the 46 snake species found in New Mexico, only [...]

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The Palace Hotel

by DrusillaClaridge January 11, 2003 Of Interest

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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 [...]

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Kit Fox

by SusanTweit January 11, 2003 Wild Life

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Driving up the east side of San Augustín Pass one morning, I spotted a small, buff-colored animal with large, pointed ears lying dead on the pavement. Richard stopped the car and I walked back to see what it was. The animal was almost delicate and about the size of a house cat, [...]

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New Mexico’s Rural Post Offices

by LynKidder January 11, 2003 Of Interest

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Would you like to go to a place where people know your name, where you can visit with friends and neighbors while keeping in touch with what’s happening around the world and down the street?
Folks living in rural New Mexico do that every day, just by going to the post office.
In a place [...]

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New Mexico’s Prisoner of War Camps

by JayMiller January 11, 2003 Of Interest

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Did you know New Mexico had prisoner of war camps during World War II?
This column has talked about ones at Santa Fe and Lordsburg that held U.S. residents of Japanese descent. The camp at Lordsburg also held captured German and Italian soldiers. Another camp at Roswell held almost exclusively German prisoners, most of [...]

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Mirages — optical illusions

by SusanTweit January 11, 2003 Of Interest

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In 1959, the Smithsonian Institution Annual Report carried the story of strange mirages seen near Yuma, Arizona. On hot, unusually still days, a clear image of a city appeared in the desert to the west of Yuma. It was no phantom either – the shimmering image was unmistakably that of San Diego, California, [...]

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Lichens — a case of kidnapping

by burchd January 11, 2003 Plants

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In 1867, Simon Schwendener startled the scientific world when he announced to the Swiss Naturalists’ Club that lichens were not the distinct organism they had long been thought to be, but rather were formed of two separate organisms:  a fungus and an alga. Leading lichenologists were outraged at the radical idea; not for [...]

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Mountain Men of the Gila

by DutchSalmon January 11, 2003 People

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In his grip on the imagination, psyche and national character, the mountain man rivals the cowboy as the archetypal American Hero. In the Southwest the mountain man reached his zenith, and held his lifestyle longest, in the region’s last great wilderness – the Gila country of southwest New Mexico. Here within the mountains [...]

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