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Groomed to go the distance CERRILLOS HILLS STATE PARK — Blue, a speckled white Egyptian Arabian gelding, trots up a rocky trail in the Cerrillos Hills State Park with his rider, Kathy Myers, posting smoothly on his back.
Writer veers away from the typical Western By: David Collins The New Mexican Johnny Boggs’ Western novels include many of the elements a reader would expect in a standard tome about the Wild West, but he’s not a typical Western writer.
“I’m a Western writer, but I’m not the Western writer your grandfather had,” Boggs said.
ALCALDE — When Nick Nickers, a wild horse from Nevada’s Calico Mountains, bucked in an Alcalde arena last week, trainer Roeliff Annon stuck to the saddle like Gorilla Glue. Gently, firmly, he eased Nick back into a fast trot and finally a walk.
“I guess his survival instincts showed,” Annon said with a grin. “I’ve been wondering when he was going to do that. He’s been a little too calm.”
‘Ghost’ keeps people guessing A surveillance camera at the First Judicial District courthouse downtown captured a strange image Friday morning that left sheriff’s deputies, lawyers, clerks and judges scratching their heads as to what it might have been.
Some thought it was the ghost of a man killed at the courthouse more than 20 years ago after bringing a rifle to the building and taking several people hostage. Others felt it had to be a reflection from a passing car or a piece of cottonwood tree fluff. Still others threw their hands in the air, but somehow liked the image anyway or at least the hullabaloo it prompted.
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