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January 1938 Southwestern
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INDIAN EMPIRE
In this area, the tourist, the vacationist, the sightseer, the student, the archaeologist find the greatest wealth of material. For prehistoric interest, national wonders, Indian Tribes— Gallup offers more, within easy motoring distance, than any other one place in the United States.
POWDER SMOKE TRAIL By FORREST BROWN (New York; Greenberg, $2)
Sheriff Jackson Lee is summoned to a rendezvous by Della Fanton, the “lady boss” of a cow-ranch. In a small deadend canyon, he finds a skeleton with a bullet hole in the skull. The villain of the region is a killer named Morelli, who works for the boss-gambler of Roaring Run, Black Tom Delaney. Delaney is the deadly enemy of Cole Dureen, wealthy mine owner, who won the Golden Skull Mine from him. The romance of Sheriff Lee and Della Fanton is entangled with the battle of Delaney and Dureen until, of course, it all comes right in the end.
Mrs. Lois Mayer, of El Paso, tells us that she came to New Mexico “in an ox wagon, when only a few months old,” and she expresses her love for New Mexico in the following verse:
You can see the snow on the mountains, And hear the call of the plains, And smell the perfume of purple sage Out here where the west remains.
This land so blessed by nature, This land we all admire, Is the Sunshine State of New Mexico, The land of “heart’s desire.”
¡Hola, amigos, próspero año nuevo a todos los amigos de Don Plácido! A very prosperous New Year to all of the friends of Don Plácido! We have just passed through the season of fiestas—the pascuas de Navidad—the time of Christmas—a season of rejoicing and good cheer. I trust that all of my lectores had a beautiful and feliz Navidad. Now for some more work, because it must not always be fiesta, and certainly not always a siesta. As you know, “Cabra coja no quiere siesta”—a poor crippled goat does not care for an afternoon nap—in other words, those of us who have but little talent must study and work so much the harder . . .
VOLUME 92, ISSUE 1 New Mexico Magazine (ISSN 0028-6249) is published monthly by the New Mexico Tourism Department at 495 Old Santa Fe Trail, Santa Fe, NM 87501-2750. SUBSCRIPTION PRICE: $25.95 per year, $45.95 outside the United States. Periodicals postage paid at Santa Fe, NM, and at additional mailing offices. POSTMASTER: Send address changes to New Mexico Magazine, PO Box 433148, Palm Coast, FL 32143-9881. Copyright © 2014 by New Mexico Magazine. Reproduction in whole or in part without permission is prohibited. The magazine is not responsible for unsolicited manuscripts, photographs, or artwork.
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