Associated Press
LINCOLN, N.M. A major preservation project is underway in an area of southern New Mexico that was was once the stomping grounds of Billy the Kid and Sheriff Pat Garrett.
Officials with the New Mexico Department of Cultural Affairs announced Thursday that the $395,000 project involves the Lincoln Historic Site, which is home to some of the most significant Territorial Period structures in the state. Many of the structures are under the protection of New Mexico Historic Sites.
One of the six buildings included in the project is the Lincoln County Courthouse, best known as the location of Billy the Kid’s final escape in April 1881.
LINCOLN How’d Billy get the gun?
It will be 140 years ago on Wednesday, April 28, that outlaw Billy the Kid shot jail guard J.W. Bell on a staircase in the Lincoln County Courthouse, setting in motion his escape from the gallows, and adding another layer of gloss to his legend.
Billy the Kid escaped from the old Lincoln County Courthouse, pictured here, on April 28, 1881, killing two deputies in the process.(Jim Thompson/Albuquerque Journal)
Bell stumbled down the steps and out the courthouse’s back door before dying. Only moments before, the hapless guard and his prisoner, the Kid, had entered the building through that door after a visit to the outhouse.
Tale of a transferred transfer station: Talking trash in San Juan County, Utah
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Sunday, April 11, 2021 1:03 PM The town of Bluff, Utah, is without a transfer station to deposit trash before it is hauled to the San Juan County landfill. On Nov. 20, 2018, county commissioners voted to transfer ownership of the transfer station to the Hole-in-the-Rock Foundation, a Mormon nonprofit group. Adobe stock
Tale of a transferred transfer station: Talking trash in San Juan County, Utah The town of Bluff, Utah, is without a transfer station to deposit trash before it is hauled to the San Juan County landfill. On Nov. 20, 2018, county commissioners voted to transfer ownership of the transfer station to the Hole-in-the-Rock Foundation, a Mormon nonprofit group.
Lost and hungry scouts: A Mormon Christmas story
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During the Christmas season of 1879, four Mormon scouts navigated the treacherous canyons of Utah to establish Bluff
Saturday, Dec. 12, 2020 11:03 AM Looking southeast from the top of Cedar Mesa, Comb Ridge stretches off to the south as a formidable barrier to the Hole-in-the-Rock Expedition, which had to cross the sandstone ridge to start a village settlement at Bluff, Utah. Courtesy of Andrew Gulliford On a cold winter day, Mule Canyon looks like a formidable adversary to any kind of travel by horse or wagon. Settlers from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints had to find a way through these Cedar Mesa canyons to arrive at the San Juan River.