Historical Journeys in the Ruidoso Vicinity
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Go Directly to Fort Stanton Info PagePlan a Visit to Ruidoso's New History Museum ... The Ruidoso River Museum.
Historical Journeys in the Ruidoso Vicinity
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Go Directly to Fort Stanton Info PagePlan a Visit to Ruidoso's New History Museum ... The Ruidoso River Museum.
The outlaying areas of Ruidoso offer up the most illustrious journeys to the Southwest's colorful past. Here in Ruidoso, and its surrounding areas, you will find that most of what you heard about outlaws, gunfights, indians, cattle drives, and cowboy legends had originated in this part of New Mexico.
...when you enter the streets of Lincoln, you are walking the very same streets that Billy the Kid did in the 1800s.
...when you arrive in White Oaks, you're seeing pretty much what this mining community looked like 100+ years ago.
...Capitan offers up its own legendary Smokey the Bear and a museum dedicated to his lifelong campaign "Only Your Can Prevent Forest Fires."
...Fort Stanton is known as the longest garrisoned fort in the state of New Mexico...established in 1855.
Stay tuned here for future postings of historic writings.
For further explorations into the past, check out the following links:
Ruidoso Vicinity Historic Sites
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