I have run across more evidence of long-simmering Texas-New Mexico tensions, once again involving Billy the Kid — and this time Roy Rogers, too. After a photo of Billy allegedly playing croquet emerged in 2015 — or a photo of someone wearing a cockeyed hat like The Kid — the Fort Worth-Star Telegram sniffed in …
Okay, so even the New York Times published a story about another possible photo of New Mexico’s most over-appreciated celebrity, Billy the Kid, but I’m still waiting for the shot of him and other Lincoln County gunmen in tennis whites. The value of the latest tintype may go sky-high because experts say the photo, for …
When I Googled Fort Stanton and croquet — Fort Stanton being a military post in Billy the Kid’s neck of the woods during his alleged croquet-playing days — I thought I might have stumbled across another record of the Kid indulging in a supposed pastime of gun-playing cowboys in New Mexico territory, circa 1878. I …
It’s life in the fast lane again after a 10-month tangle with cancer. I was up early today to cook breakfast for my stepsister-neighbor Susan and just yesterday had coffee with a bunch of other retired newspaper guys in the heart of what ringleader Jim Belshaw calls the Corrales Metroplex. The boys were talking baseball …
