Black Range Tales

[Walt]

This is a facinating book made up of largely first person stories of southwestern New Mexico. First published in 1936, the author writes of Indian fights, lost gold and mining in this remote mountain range in the last decades of the nineteenth century. It's a good book, hard to put down.

[JimT]

Thank you!

[gamekeeper]

Looks like I will be doing a bit of reading....

[Bill in Oregon]

Looks good, Walt. It is a nice drive from Hillsboro and Kingston up over Emory Pass and down into the Mimbres Valley. Miss that Black Range country.

[AJMD429]

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I could get lost in a book like that…

[Walt]

Bill, that winding mountain road is a motorcyclist's dream. I've enjoyed it many times.

You may know that Hillsboro was once the county seat of Sierra County. The ruins of their county courthouse and the old jail are way cool.

[Bill in Oregon]

Yessir, where Oliver Lee and Jim Gililland were tried for the murder of Colonel Fountain and his little boy Henry -- and found innocent.