Volunteers reviving history at Farwell Cemetery

 

Farwell, Texas. Bales of cotton at a warehouse and gin along the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad between Amarillo, Texas and Clovis, New Mexico, 1943 (Jack Delano/FSA/OWI/LoC)

(Clovis News Journal) Lots of big history here. Big as the state of Texas, where almost everything is always bigger, it seems. All of it shared by a less imposing, perhaps more modest, New Mexican border town.
This is ranching country and has been for more than a century. That’s when “The Flamboyant Judge” John Hamlin and his boys, the Farwell brothers from Chicago and other investors from back East, arrived with big plans.
Texas-style plans. Continued