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Travel Guide New Mexico tm Silver City , New Mexico
creative types. The historic district is home to casual restaurants that put the area's green chiles to good use. Outside town, The Nature Conservancy runs Bear Mountain Lodge, a hacienda adjacent to birding, biking, and hiking opportunities in the Gila National Forest. Silver City was recently selected as one of the healthiest places to live and retire. The colorful history dating back to 1870 when silver was discovered above La Cienega (Marsh) de San Vicente. Tales from those early days ...
Author: TravelGuideNewMexico; Tags: New Mexico Travel Tourism
Travel Guide New Mexico tm Pinos Altos, New Mexico
Historic Pinos Altos (Tall Pines) is located just six miles north of Silver City on NM 15 at an elevation of 7040 feet. Nestled into the Gila National Forest, the town began in 1860 when three frustrated 49-ers, Thomas Birch, Colonel Snively and another guy named Hicks, stopped to take a drink in Bear Creek and discovered gold. The Main Street of this charming old gold-mining town is like an old western movie set. Many of the old buildings date back to the 1800's and Visitors can soak up ...
Author: TravelGuideNewMexico; Tags: New Mexico Travel Tourism
Travel Guide New Mexico tm Gila Rangers, Billy the Kid Shootout, Reenactment
The controversy over Billy the Kids life and death started when he was shot and killed by Pat Garrett in July 1888. But did Billy die, did Garrett really kill him or was somebody else the victim of Garretts bullets? The legend holds that Billy, also known as William Bonney Henry McCarty and Henry Antrim, was born in New York, or was it Texas? His mother was Catherine Antrim, or was he born to her sister and raised by Antrim? The controversy of his life stems far beyond what documented ...
Author: TravelGuideNewMexico; Tags: Billy the Kid Shootout Reenactment Tourism Travel
Travel Guide New Mexico tm Gila Cliff Dwellings, Silver City , New Mexico
Gila Cliff Dwellings National Monument offers a glimpse of the homes and lives of the people of the Mogollon culture who lived in the Gila Wilderness from the 1280s through the early 1300s. The surroundings probably look today very much like they did when the cliff dwellings were inhabited. The monument is surrounded by the Gila National Forest and lies at the edge of the Gila Wilderness, the nation's first designated wilderness area. This designation means that the wilderness character of ...
Author: TravelGuideNewMexico; Tags: Silver City New Mexico Tourism New Mexico
GS&M Paints schemes: Early and late
Gila Springs & Mesquite aka The GS&M from it's early New Haven NH Black and Orange paint schemes to the later Grand Trunk GT Blue and Red paint schemes. I do not have the latest paint scheme were the 6 axle units get the Black and Red CN paint scheme. The RS-11 has a transtion paint scheme in the blue. You can see the Yellow strip and the "GILA SPRINGS & MESQUITE" on the side as all the new units have gone to the "GS&M" on the side. The 4 axle units will still stay in the Blue and Red GT ...
Author: IMRROcom; Tags: Cruxshadows Deception
