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Snapshots Sunday: Walsenburg
![Walsenburg Sign Image One](https://radioronin.files.wordpress.com/2009/12/dsc09112.jpg?w=705)
As a companion piece to the Fort Sumner post, my ex-Marine and I headed north, still on our way to Liar’s Lodge. We headed into snow and landed in Walsenburg, Colorado, in Huerfano County, a town smaller than the one I am living in and, as of 2019, continues to hemorrhage people from a peak of 5,855 in 1940. We arrived after dark and stopped to eat. There’s not much there, back then or now. ~Vic
![New Mexico Mountains Image Two](https://cosmic-observation.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/200812.01-1.jpg?w=705)
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![Mileage Sign Image Three](https://cosmic-observation.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/200812.02-1.jpg?w=705&h=488)
![Driving Into Snow Image Four](https://cosmic-observation.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/200812.03-1.jpg?w=705)
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![Snowy Road Image Five](https://cosmic-observation.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/200812.04-1.jpg?w=705)
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![Empty Diner Image Six](https://cosmic-observation.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/200812.05-1.jpg?w=705)
the diner looks like it’s from 1974.
Alpine Rose Cafe
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![Deserted Diner Image Seven](https://cosmic-observation.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/200812.06.jpg?w=705)
We had a decent meal.
It’s still there as of 2018.
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![Radio Station Image Eight](https://cosmic-observation.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/200812.07.jpg?w=705)
It appears to still be there.
It is the only home of Colorado Rockies Baseball
in Southern Colorado.
![Huerfano Courthouse Image Nine](https://cosmic-observation.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/200812.08.jpg?w=705)
The lights in the windows are odd.
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![Snowing Image Ten](https://cosmic-observation.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/200812.09.jpg?w=705)
while I was attempting another picture.
Additional Reading:
Returning to the Place I’d Never Been (Acts & Tracks/radioronin.wordpress.com)
City of Walsenburg (colorado.gov)
Walsenburg (colorado.com)
Walsenburg (Uncover Colorado)
Shutterbug Saturday: Old Fort Sumner Museum
I lived in Texas for nearly a decade. My ex-Marine and I did some traveling through the west when we had opportunities. I’ve been digging around in some old stuff and found some photos from a visit to the Old Fort Sumner Museum in New Mexico in December of 2008. We were on our way to Liar’s Lodge. The museum closed in 2017. ~Vic
![Old Fort Sumner Museum Image One](https://cosmic-observation.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/200812.01.jpg?w=705)
It was so overcast.
It never occurred to me to take pictures inside.
![Historic Marker Image Two](https://cosmic-observation.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/200812.02.jpg?w=705)
Lucien Maxwell
Fort Sumner
Bosque Redondo
![Elusive Tombstone Image Three](https://cosmic-observation.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/200812.03.jpg?w=705)
Joe Bowlin
Notice the reference to Texas International Airlines
Jarvis P. Garrett is Pat’s son.
UPI Article on the 1981 Recovery
![Stone Marker Image Four](https://cosmic-observation.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/200812.04.jpg?w=705)
Charlie Bowdre December 23, 1880
Tom O’Folliard December 19, 1880
![Billy's Tombstone Image Five](https://cosmic-observation.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/200812.05.jpg?w=705)
AKA William H. Bonney
AKA Billy The Kid
July 14, 1881
“The boy bandit king,
he died as he lived.”
Late Add:
Photo Credit: Erans World
02-11-2014
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Additional Reading:
BTKOG (Billy the Kid Outlaw Gang Site)
Whiskey and the Devil: Taiban, New Mexico (City of Dust Blogspot January 10, 2012)
Billy the Kid’s Two Graves (Roadside America August 15, 2020)
Caught With His Pants Down: Billy the Kid vs Pat Garrett (True West Magazine August 1, 2010)
Brushy Bill Roberts (Wikipedia)