The study by the U.S. Forest Service’s Rocky Mountain Research Station is a kind of encyclopedia of New Mexico forests, one that researchers hope can be consistently updated every few years. It uses data gathered at 3,000 forested sites on private and federal lands between 2008 and 2012. Continued
Friday, August 29, 2014
Study: Tree deaths outpace new growth across New Mexico
The study by the U.S. Forest Service’s Rocky Mountain Research Station is a kind of encyclopedia of New Mexico forests, one that researchers hope can be consistently updated every few years. It uses data gathered at 3,000 forested sites on private and federal lands between 2008 and 2012. Continued
Wednesday, August 27, 2014
Tuesday, August 26, 2014
KENW celebrates 40 years
KENW was born as a public broadcasting station 40 years ago, but Ryan, the station’s director of broadcasting, said there were challenges along the way.
KENW broadcasts to the eastern side of New Mexico and parts of west Texas. Continued
Sunday, August 24, 2014
Clay Allison: ‘Good-Natured Holy Terror’
(Historynet.com) Old West historian Paul Cool says that the phrase "good-natured holy terror" fits several Wild West characters. William "Curly Bill" Brocius and John Henry "Doc" Holliday come to mind. One character who definitely fills the bill is Robert Clay Allison, who reportedly considered himself a "shootist" rather than a gunman.
From 1956, when Franciscan friar Stanley Francis Louis Crocchiola wrote the first biography of Allison, until the early 2000s, when onsite and electronic research was easier, Clay Allison was portrayed as an unglued Southerner who poured his bitterness and vile onto former Union soldiers and anyone else who crossed him. Unfortunately this is how most people still view Allison. Early research on the man was iffy at best, and subsequent writers—and readers—have paid the price. In fact, disregarding the myths laid at his feet by modern writers, Clay in his early Texas years was a young man matured by four years of war and evidently trustworthy enough that two prominent Texas cattleman made him foreman of a 700-mile trail drive. Continued
From 1956, when Franciscan friar Stanley Francis Louis Crocchiola wrote the first biography of Allison, until the early 2000s, when onsite and electronic research was easier, Clay Allison was portrayed as an unglued Southerner who poured his bitterness and vile onto former Union soldiers and anyone else who crossed him. Unfortunately this is how most people still view Allison. Early research on the man was iffy at best, and subsequent writers—and readers—have paid the price. In fact, disregarding the myths laid at his feet by modern writers, Clay in his early Texas years was a young man matured by four years of war and evidently trustworthy enough that two prominent Texas cattleman made him foreman of a 700-mile trail drive. Continued
Old House 18
Saturday, August 23, 2014
Friday, August 22, 2014
Tuesday, August 19, 2014
Grasshoppers
Monday, August 18, 2014
Lost in Translation: Germany’s Fascination With the American Old West
(NYTimes) ... Generations of children here have grown up on the adventure stories of Karl May, whose books feature the fictional characters Old Shatterhand, a gallant European, and his Apache chief blood brother, Winnetou. May, who died in 1912, wrote dozens of books about the American West, portraying the Indians as noble savages fighting the injustice of European settlers. More than 100 million of his books have been sold in Germany, and they have been translated into 33 languages, according to the Karl May Foundation. Continued
New Mexico's Northern Landscape Gets A New Burst Of Color
The eastern central plains of New Mexico are doing o.k. too. |
It's a remarkable sight. The high desert is normally the color of baked pie crust; now, it's emerald.
Kirt Kempter, a geologist who lives in Santa Fe, says this transformation is far from ordinary. Continued
The Western Motel
The Western Motel, along Route 66, in San Jon, New Mexico, is no longer in business, but stands as a forlorn monument to more lucrative times.
Sunday, August 17, 2014
Saturday, August 16, 2014
How Green Was My Mesa
What a difference a little rain makes. After 3 years of drought, the rain has returned to the Llano Estacado and greened things up nicely. The above pictures give a nice before and after view. Both taken at Wheatland Cemetery, the first on May 5th, before the rains came, the second was taken yesterday. The rest of the pictures were taken yesterday in the McAlister/House area, which seems to have turned out even greener. The photographs are mostly of the roadside as it represents a part of the landscape that is rarely irrigated. We made a big loop covering Tucumcari, Wheatland, Clovis, Melrose, House, McAlister, etc., and it all looked relatively verdant. The drought isn't over, that would take a lot more rain, but, as you can see in the pictures, there's more rain coming. Let's hope it continues for a good long time.
Friday, August 15, 2014
Garrison Keillor: By the Book
(NYTBR) The host of “A Prairie Home Companion” and the author, most recently, of “The Keillor Reader” collects hymnals, phrase books and tales of heroic collies. And “I’m a connoisseur of bad poetry of the elegiac variety.”
What are the best books about Minnesota?
Ecclesiastes tells you all you need to know about Minnesota. “Whoever increases knowledge increases sorrow.” You can say that again. “The race is not to the swift nor the battle to the strong nor bread to the wise nor riches to men of understanding, but time and chance happeneth to them all.” That’s got Minnesota down to a T. You run fast and you trip on a gopher hole, you are heavily armed and well trained and you shoot yourself in the foot, you’re so smart you go broke. Continued
Thursday, August 14, 2014
Tuesday, August 12, 2014
Roadrunner
Monday, August 11, 2014
Interview with Historiographer Don Bullis
Perfecto Armijo |
Sunday, August 10, 2014
Saturday, August 9, 2014
Friday, August 8, 2014
Farwell, Texas 1943
Thursday, August 7, 2014
Wednesday, August 6, 2014
Tuesday, August 5, 2014
Monday, August 4, 2014
Taos Mutiny of 1855
Aaron D. Stevens (kansasmemory.org) |
Fort Bascom Mural
Tucumcari has an impressive number of murals decorating the town. This one does double duty, advertising the Fort Bascom Trading Post, a secondhand store, and informing people about Fort Bascom (1863 - 1870), which was located just a few miles out of town.
Sunday, August 3, 2014
Friday, August 1, 2014
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