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There's another Eagle up in the window! |
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There really isn't much in the town. The Eagles' "Take It Easy" made it famous, so they built this "corner". |
slowing down to take a look at me." Met lots of people here from all over doing the same as we - paying homage to the Eagles:-) |
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We may lose and we may win Though we will never be here again So open up, I'm climbin' in And take it easy. |
The souvenir shop played Eagles 24/7. I wonder if they ever get tired of the music? Here's one they would be tired of : ) "Take It Easy" cover recorded in England by the Hillmans |
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Don't say maybe I gotta know if your sweet love Is gonna save me." |
our Honda Civic bearing license plate "Jeddak"... We decide to take the truck. Onward to Norman Petty Recording Studio - Clovis, NM and then on to the Buddy Holly Centre in Lubbock, TX |
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This area contained many Indian pueblos dating from about A.D. 500 to 1325, when it was abandoned. Navajos settled here by 1800. This was the home of Manuelito, one of the last of the chiefs to surrender for confinement at the Bosque Redondo Reservation near Fort Sumner. The Navajos returned here in 1868. |
and Old Fort Sumner Museum Contains Historical Documents of Billy the Kid and Pat Garrett |
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Post Cemetery Fort Sumner State Monument
Old Fort Sumner Museum
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Billy the Kid's Tombstone was stolen in 1950. For 26 years it remained a mystery until 1976, when it was recovered in Granbury, Texas by Joe Bowlin. Stolen again on Feb. 8, 1981. Recovered Feb. 12 in Huntington Beach, CA Gov. Bruce King arranged for De Baca County Sheriff "Big John" MacBride to fly to Los Angeles, CA. via Texas International Airlines to return the marker. Chamber officials with Jarvis P. Garrett officially reset the marker in iron shackles May 30, 1981. |
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n iron cage was placed over the grave. It's very unlikely that these headstones were placed on the exact location of the Kid's original grave, so they're more like a memorial monument than the actually last resting place of Billy the Kid |
21 Men. William H. Bonney BILLY THE KID "The Boy Bandit King He Died As He Lived." Born Nov. 23, 1860 Killed July 1881 |
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so in 1932, friends purchased a headstone with the inscription of William H. Bonney alias Billy the Kid, Tom O'Folliard, and Charlie Bowdre, along with the word "Pals." |
was placed for Billy the Kid in the same spot, and that one has been stolen twice and fortunately recovered. |
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Billy the Kid Museum and Store |
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Age, 18. Height 5 feet, 3 inches. Weight, 125 lbs. Light hair, Blue eyes and even features. He is the leader of the worst band of desperados the Territory has ever had to deal with. The above reward will be paid for his capture or positive proof of his death. PAT GARRETT, Sheriff |
($5,000.00) Reward for the capture, dead or alive, of one Wm. Bonney, better known as "BILLY THE KID" Dead or Alive! |
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