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I think the Ozymandias family lived there - real uppity. 

Salty Dog

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Quay County, New Mexico

Rath City, Texas

Buffalo Skulls

(Wikipedia) Rath City was a frontier town which existed for fewer than five years and is now a ghost town. The town was located on the Double Mountain Fork Brazos River, 14 miles northwest of Hamlin in southern Stonewall County, Texas, United States. The town was founded in 1876.
Its original establishment was meant to capitalize on the buffalo trade and it was Stonewall County's first settlement. In 1877, the town housed a store, two saloons, a dance hall, and a few tents and dugouts. The town's namesake was Charles Rath, whose store, built in 1875, was the structure around which the village grew. Continued

Little Caboose on the Caprock

You never know just what you'll find clinging to the side of a cliff, this particular cliff being the northern escarpment of the Llano Estacado. Retired Atchison Topeka and Sant Fe Caboose, Number 999501, sits waiting for a train that'll never come. But what a view! As you can see, the owners converted it into a little cabin.

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Quay County, New Mexico

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Just west of Clovis, New Mexico

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Southwest Quay County, or Curry, or Roosevelt, it's confusing down there.

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Hassell, New Mexico

Wind Turbines Going Up in Grady

Britt Johnson

"The Last Lull in the Fight" by Frederick Remington

(TSHA) JOHNSON, BRITTON (ca. 1840–1871). Britton (Britt) Johnson was born about 1840, probably in Tennessee.
He became a legend on the West Texas frontier after the summer of 1865, when he went out onto the Llano Estacado in pursuit of Indians who had kidnapped his wife and two children in the Elm Creek Raid of October 1864. Continued

Bad Hand's Sad End

(Texas Day By Day) On this day in 1883, Ranald Slidell (Bad Hand) Mackenzie, hard-driving cavalry officer, was diagnosed as suffering from "paralysis of the insane."
... he became one of the leading cavalry commanders on the frontier, leading the Fourth United States Cavalry in a number of campaigns against varous Indian tribes. In Texas he is best known for his victory against the Comanches at Palo Duro Canyon and for the extralegal Remolino raid into Mexico in pursuit of Kickapoo raiders. Continued

Dan Blocker

(Wikipedia) Bobby Dan Davis Blocker (December 10, 1928 – May 13, 1972) was an American television actor and Korean War veteran. He is best remembered for his role as Hoss Cartwright in the NBC Western television series Bonanza.
Blocker was born Bobby Dan Davis Blocker in De Kalb, Bowie County, Texas, son of Ora "Shack" Blocker (1895–1960) and his wife Mary Arizona Blocker, née Davis (1901–1998).
The family moved to O'Donnell, south of Lubbock in West Texas, where they operated a store. Continued

Texans’ 1872 raid reclaimed stolen cattle from Eastern New Mexico

(Santa Fe New Mexican) In midsummer of 1872, a Texas cattleman, John Hittson, led 50 hard-bitten cowboys on a vigilante-style raid of Eastern New Mexico, and he did so with the approval of his state governor.
  … The trouble that prompted Hittson’s daring act had its origins in the famed Comanchero trade of the southern plains. Comancheros were native New Mexicans who, for more than a century, had been venturing upon the wide Llano Estacado to trade with the warlike Comanche Indians. Continued

Cavalry column discovers German sisters in Cheyenne camp

(Texas Day by Day) On this day in 1874, a cavalry column under Lt. Frank D. Baldwin charged a Cheyenne encampment north of McClellan Creek, about ten miles south of the site of present-day Pampa. The surprised Indians abandoned the village and left most of their property intact.
Riding through the deserted camp, Billy Dixon and other army scouts noticed movement in a pile of buffalo hides; they were astonished to find two white captives, Julia and Addie German, both emaciated and near starvation. Continued

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Puerto de Luna, New Mexico

Puerto de Luna and Santa Rosa mark the western edge of New Mexico's eastern plains. Both towns are decades older than most of their sister cities to the east.
Founded by Hispanic settlers in the 1860's, it was about as far east as a New Mexican could get without annoying the mighty Comanche, who would rule the Llano Estacado until 1874.
Billy the Kid spent his last Christmas in Puerto de Luna in 1880.

"The NM Game & Fish Prairie Chicken Seafood Restaurant"

Somebody made a joke on the Google.

Fire Station: Milnesand, New Mexico

 

Milnesand Volunteer Fire Department has two stations, the one above, and one a few miles away. According to its website, "... the department has 14 volunteer Firemen and EMT’s and our fire district covers 120 square miles of vast dry land farm and ranch land in Eastern New Mexico. The Milnesand Volunteer Fire Department response zone covers an area of 600 square miles and serves a population of 200 in the response zone. There are approximately 375 structures (homes, barns, shops) spread over the 600 square miles of the fire response zone."
Of the 1,160,450 firefighters in the United States, 814,880 are volunteers (NFPA).

Nelson A. Miles

(Wikipedia) Nelson Appleton Miles (August 8, 1839 – May 15, 1925) was a United States soldier who served in the American Civil War, Indian Wars, and the Spanish–American War.
... Miles played a leading role in nearly all of the U.S. Army's campaigns against the American Indian tribes of the Great Plains. In 1874–1875, he was a field commander in the force that defeated the Kiowa, Comanche, and the Southern Cheyenne along the Red River. Continued

The J. W. Carter Family and the 7-Up Ranch

 

"The first permanent settlers in Castro County, the James W. Carter family moved to this area in 1884. A tent and dugout served as home until a house was constructed (100 yds. W). Their cattle, which they brought with them, were marked with the 7-UP brand.
Their daughter Lizzie (born 1886) was the first white child born to a permanent settler in the area. James Carter (1845-1916) was instrumental in the organization of the Castro County government in 1891 and served on the first commissioners court.
Carter and his wife Ellen (1855-1942) later opened a hotel in Dimmitt."