April 2021 Gallup Journey Magazine

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CAMPING IN THE HILLS NIGHT LIFE AT CEREMONIAL

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rom the very first year of Ceremonial, housing has been a problem. In nineteen-twenty-two an average of twenty cars passed through Gallup on any given day. The famed Harvey House, El Navajo, would open the following year. Nineteen-twenty two was also the year Gallup was under martial law because of the coal strikes. The El Rancho east of town wasn’t built until 1937, primarily as comfortable housing for visiting movie crews. At that time Gallup’s population was tilted toward the unmarried men who worked the

THESE OVERSIZED WAGON WHEELS WERE SUPPPOSED TO MAKE IT THROUGH SAND DRIFTS BETTER THAN THE REGULAR WHEELS

1937 WAGONS

THESE GUYS SINGING ENEMY WAY SONGS LOOK PRETTY HAPPY


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