Time might cloud understanding of news reports from over 140 years ago, but items from the pages of the 19th Century Las Vegas (New Mexico) Gazette still catch my eye. Hiding today from the 21st Century heat, I resumed my occasional research on croquet in territorial New Mexico. This was related to my ongoing interest …
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 includes …
When I googled Fort Stanton and croquet I thought I might have stumbled across another record of Billy the Kid indulging in what seems like an unlikely pastime for gun-playing cowboys in New Mexico territory, 1878. Fort Stanton after all was a military post in the Kid’s neck of the woods during his alleged croquet-playing …
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