Here is a compilation of the text messages I received today w/ a little history I found on the areas thrown in!
Day 2 included:
A vist to The Roswell Museum and Art Center in Roswell, NM. This museum inspires discovery, creativity, and cultural understanding of the art and history of the American Southwest and beyond.
Then on to San Antonio, NM via “Billy the Kid Trail”
A Picnic lunch in Old Lincoln- La Placita del Rio Bonito, “the little town by the beautiful river,” was founded in the 1850s by Hispaño farmers. In 1869, when Lincoln County was formed, it was renamed and became the county seat. Lincoln is now one of the best-preserved cow towns of the late 1800s. The Historic district- west of Hondo, NM- scene of Apache wars and pitched gun battles between outlaw gangs. Now just crumbling adobe brick buildings, rotted wood, a couple burros braying, and at least 25 historic site plaques.
At Lincoln occurred one of the most famous cattle feuds in the history of the West, the Lincoln County War in 1878. The rival Murphy and Tunstall-McSween factions fought a battle that lasted for 5 months and culminated in a 3-day gunfight on the streets of Lincoln, in which half a dozen men were killed. A prominent participant was William H. Bonney, better known as "Billy the Kid." Three years later, in 1881, killing his two guards, he dramatically escaped from the Lincoln County jail. But he was shot and killed several months later at Fort Sumner by Pat Garrett.
Left “old” Lincoln and drove over the lovely Rio Grande which is the third longest river system in the United States and serves as a natural boundary along part of the border between the United States and Mexico. Took the “Royal Road” (originally used by Spain before the Pilgrims arrived!) to Bosque de Apaches National Bird Refuge. Bosque del Apache is Spanish for "woods of the Apache," and is rooted in the time when the Spanish observed Apaches routinely camped in the riverside forest. Since then the name has come to mean one of the most spectacular national wildlife refuges in North America. Here, tens of thousands of birds--including sandhill cranes, Arctic geese, and many kinds of ducks--gather each autumn and stay through the winter. Feeding snow geese erupt in explosions of wings when frightened by a stalking coyote, and at dusk, flight after flight of geese and cranes return to roost in the marshes.
At 5:07pm CST they had 160 miles to go to Santa Fe…their resting stop for this evening.
A vist to The Roswell Museum and Art Center in Roswell, NM. This museum inspires discovery, creativity, and cultural understanding of the art and history of the American Southwest and beyond.
Then on to San Antonio, NM via “Billy the Kid Trail”
A Picnic lunch in Old Lincoln- La Placita del Rio Bonito, “the little town by the beautiful river,” was founded in the 1850s by Hispaño farmers. In 1869, when Lincoln County was formed, it was renamed and became the county seat. Lincoln is now one of the best-preserved cow towns of the late 1800s. The Historic district- west of Hondo, NM- scene of Apache wars and pitched gun battles between outlaw gangs. Now just crumbling adobe brick buildings, rotted wood, a couple burros braying, and at least 25 historic site plaques.
At Lincoln occurred one of the most famous cattle feuds in the history of the West, the Lincoln County War in 1878. The rival Murphy and Tunstall-McSween factions fought a battle that lasted for 5 months and culminated in a 3-day gunfight on the streets of Lincoln, in which half a dozen men were killed. A prominent participant was William H. Bonney, better known as "Billy the Kid." Three years later, in 1881, killing his two guards, he dramatically escaped from the Lincoln County jail. But he was shot and killed several months later at Fort Sumner by Pat Garrett.
Left “old” Lincoln and drove over the lovely Rio Grande which is the third longest river system in the United States and serves as a natural boundary along part of the border between the United States and Mexico. Took the “Royal Road” (originally used by Spain before the Pilgrims arrived!) to Bosque de Apaches National Bird Refuge. Bosque del Apache is Spanish for "woods of the Apache," and is rooted in the time when the Spanish observed Apaches routinely camped in the riverside forest. Since then the name has come to mean one of the most spectacular national wildlife refuges in North America. Here, tens of thousands of birds--including sandhill cranes, Arctic geese, and many kinds of ducks--gather each autumn and stay through the winter. Feeding snow geese erupt in explosions of wings when frightened by a stalking coyote, and at dusk, flight after flight of geese and cranes return to roost in the marshes.
At 5:07pm CST they had 160 miles to go to Santa Fe…their resting stop for this evening.
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