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Exploring the High Plains

Friday, August 1, 2025

Jal House Rock or Get Your Potash in Gear!

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Monday, December 23, 2024

Fire destroys old Kenna store and post office

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(Eastern New Mexico News) Fire claimed the iconic Kenna store and service station along U.S. 70 late Saturday afternoon. Continued
Monday, June 27, 2022

Baxter Black, Who Elevated Cowboy Poetry to Folk Art, Dies at 77

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(NYTimes) Baxter Black, the country’s best-known cowboy poet, whose witty, big-hearted verse about cowpokes, feed lots and wide-open vistas...
Thursday, June 16, 2022

Geronimo

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(Wikipedia) Geronimo (Mescalero-Chiricahua: Goyaałé [kòjàːɬɛ́] "the one who yawns"; June 16, 1829 – February 17, 1909) was a pro...
Tuesday, June 14, 2022

"Trick Riders and Bronco Busters"

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Tucumcari Roundup, circa 1920 (University of North Texas)

Hereford Homesteaders

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Photograph of early settlers of Hereford, Texas. (Portal to Texas History)
Monday, June 13, 2022

Paul Modrich

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(Wikipedia) Paul Lawrence Modrich (born June 13, 1946) is an American biochemist, James B. Duke Professor of Biochemistry at Duke Universi...
Sunday, June 12, 2022

The Pralines, Pecan Log Rolls and Nostalgia Fueling the Stuckey’s Revival

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Old Stuckey's billboard, just west of Tucumcari, New Mexico (NYTimes) In June 2020, having used her life savings to buy back the failin...
Friday, June 10, 2022

Hungarian Blackberry Juice and Wild Cherry Bitters

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  (Peachridge Glass) I’m not quite sure what I found in a New Mexican newspaper. The December 15, 1906 Tucumcari News (Tucumcari, New Me...
Wednesday, June 1, 2022

Remember! Only Ewe Can Prevent Forest Fires

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(Santa Fe New Mexican) ... In the 19th century, livestock interrupted the cycle of frequent, cooler fires. “Historically the fires were j...
Saturday, May 28, 2022

Jim Thorpe

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(Wikipedia) James Francis Thorpe (Sac and Fox (Sauk): Wa-Tho-Huk, translated as "Bright Path"; May 22 or 28, 1887 – March 28, 19...
Monday, May 23, 2022

Bonnie and Clyde

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(Wikipedia) Bonnie Elizabeth Parker (October 1, 1910 – May 23, 1934) and Clyde Chestnut Barrow a.k.a. Clyde Champion Barrow (March 24, 190...
Sunday, May 22, 2022

T. Boone Pickens

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... Pickens was born in Holdenville, Oklahoma, the son of Grace (née Molonson) and Thomas Boone Pickens. His father worked as an oil and ...
Thursday, May 19, 2022

Country Churches: Newkirk, NM

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And the lowest hanging cloud I have ever photographed.

Harry Brown

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Courtesy of The 475th Fighter Group Historical Foundation Harry Winston Brown (May 19, 1921 – October 7, 1991) was an Army Air Corps ...
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