Billy the Kid lived in Lincoln.
It is near Ruidoso. Closer to Roswell than Alamogordo.
Okay, I always heard he was burried in Ft Sumner
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93% on rotten tomatoes! Thank you for that.
I’ve driven through FT. Sumner at least two dozen times…each time I leaned over to my wife and said “ OK hun…last chance to see Billy The Kid…”
Each time she just grinned back at me.
There was another small town close by that used to boast “The Real Billy The Kid” gravesite…lawsuits lasted for years, and I believe Ft. Sumner won out…
Yep. It’s a long time til September 1st…
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Yep it is a long time to FB season! We got to fill in with in with something!
Go Coogs !
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Good memories there, the AF puts out a lot of misinformation but its public they moved the nukes underground around 93 and turned the mountain over to Sandia Labs. Manzano is a maze of tunnels dating way back but there’s none to the airport, they used to convoy them to fly in and out AF and DOE, worked many convoys. Manzano “The Rock” had many stories (Aliens, UFOs, Kennedy Assassination evidence lol, ghosts, you name it). Best one was the Manzano Monster (A genetic army experiment gone wrong that escaped) that roamed the mountain. They used to take all the newbies on a tour of the tunnels and scare them with all the stories. With 60 or so guys locked in and area for 12 hours a shift there was a lot of time to kill. That EMP building is still there, crazy stuff going on there. All of the X-Files stuff was supposedly going on in Coyote Canyon behind Manzano, that was a whole other round of stories. Loved Albuquerque, was there 3 years AF Security before off to my next base.
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How about a top 10 basketball team?
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Basketball is nice and all…
Billy was killed in Ft. Sumner by Pat Garrett and is buried there.
He escaped jail in Lincoln, where he was to be hanged for a murder he had committed. Billy killed 2 jailers during his escape.
Each August Lincoln has a Festival called “The Last Escape of Billy the Kid”. A parade, people dressed in period costumes, Arts & Crafts, etc.
Nearby is old Ft. Stanton, which is a National Monument and has a very large Vets Cemetery. The Barracks and other Buildings are circa 1870. Very interesting, historical place. The Mescalero Apaches were subdued by Ft. Stanton and their Leaders were held there as captives until they were given their own Reservation. It physically abuts Ruidoso.
Fascinating area for history. By the by “Trinity Site” is open the first Saturdays of April and October. 2 days per year. Just an astonishing place. The actual detonation site may be visited. It has a fence along it featuring Military photos of the detonation. Taken milliseconds apart you see the expanding mushroom cloud of the world’s first Atomic Bomb. Chilling!
5 miles South is a small farm house wherein the Bomb, brought from LosAlamos, was assembled. Final assembly of the war head was in the Living room. You can stand there. You are standing on the exact spot where the war head was finalized. In a small farm house.
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Do we have a bowling team? How about a “Texas Hold’em” team? Maybe a team billiards team ? ? ? ? ?
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I could go for some dodgeball on ice.
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Roswell? That’s where the Space Marines are gonna come from! 
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