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CABEZON PEAK â The satellite dish on the roof gives it a modern touch, but this old house, in the shadow of 8,000-foot-high Cabezon Peak, once was a trading post and a stop on the stagecoach route.
In the distance, the tip of a local church is visible. A couple of ranches, too, but this is largely a remote and nearly unpopulated section of Sandoval County.
Ayden Madrid, 18, and his dog, Joey, move cattle on his family’s ranch near Cabezon Peak. Madrid, a linebacker for Bernalillo High School, has helped work the ranch since he was 10 years old. (Roberto E. Rosales/Albuquerque Journal)
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