NM governor considers pardon for Billy the Kid

KOB.com - NM governor considers pardon for Billy the Kid

Centennial logo design unveiled

KOB.com - Centennial logo design unveiled

I had actually hoped for something more esoteric considering NM Statehood Centennial occurs in December 2012. :)

There is also an official Centennial site here.

The Lyon Letters- Arrival in Albuquerque

The Lyon Letters- Arrival in Albuquerque

The Lyon letters- On the road to New Albuquerque

The Lyon letters- On the road to New Albuquerque

Preservation group names endangered places

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The Lyon letters- Her answer

The Lyon letters- Her answer

The Lyon Letters- The courtship begins

The Lyon Letters- The courtship begins

The Coming of the Railroad and the Birth of New Town

The Coming of the Railroad and the Birth of New Town

The Lyon letters- A tale of two Albuquerques

The Lyon letters- A tale of two Albuquerques

The Lyon Letters- Introduction

The Lyon Letters- Introduction

A New Mexico Day

The annual Wild West Antique Show is this weekend. We went yesterday.

To be honest, I am not a big fan of most of what is sold there -- spurs, saddles and other cowboy and Indian stuff. The old jewelry is nice, but far more than I want to pay for jewelry. I used to pick up old trade beads there, but I have lots of those now and since I haven't beaded in ages it would be silly to buy more. I do still enjoy seeing the old Native American beaded moccasins and clothing though. There are lots of other things that I enjoy looking at from a historical perspective, but I wouldn't really want to own. Every few years I find that odd thing that doesn't really belong at such a show and it appeals to me and I buy it, but not this year.

This year I bought one thing - lunch. I don't know if it was because I was hungry, but it seemed to be the BEST Navajo taco that I have ever had. No meat and green chili rather than the traditional red.



Yeah, Britton talked me into getting onto a huge bull. It was fun, so I am not complaining. Getting on isn't so hard, but for some reason it took quite a lot of explaining for me to figure out how to get back down. What? Swing my right leg backwards? It sounded impossible, but I somehow managed it.

Civil War soldiers to be honored

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NM launches Billy the Kid Web site

www.KOB.com - NM launches Billy the Kid Web site

Remains of 3 Buffalo Soldiers to be reburied

www.KOB.com - Remains of 3 Buffalo Soldiers to be reburied

Wayne Brazel, Pat Garrett and UFOs

In the search for answers to questions about UFOs and alien spacecraft crashes, you sometimes run into strange information. Because Lincoln County, New Mexico was so large, much had happened there and as I was researching the Roswell UFO crash, I read the history of the county. One of the things that struck me was that the Brazel family had been part of that history some fifty or sixty years before anyone had heard of flying saucers or UFO crashes.

In a couple of books, I learned that Wayne Brazel had killed Pat Garrett but on one seemed to know what happened to Brazel. He disappeared some time after the trial and one of those historians speculated that Brazel had gone to South America and been killed there in a fashion similar to Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.

Well, I was sitting there, in the cab of a pick up truck talking to a Brazel relative, so I asked the simple question and got a somewhat complex answer... Oh, not overly complex, mind you, but certainly not what I had been expecting.

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A Different Perspective: Wayne Brazel, Pat Garrett and UFOs