Over the next 11 months we will be sharing the Memoirs That Made Me Who I Am. These are compiled stories written about the life of a former Gallup resident Eugene Leone. Before his passing, he wrote, “It is with great delight that I share these stories from my heart, which have been inside for many years. My desire is that the reader would be able to go back to a time that was very real and may have been lost through the years.
48 June 2021
Chapter One
A Friend’s Death
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he mule heard it first, then the miner. It was a combination of a crunching sound
punctuated by ominous, loud crackling sounds coming from the ceiling, both the miner and the mule had heard it before. It
