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U.S. Highway 60, Magdalena, New Mexico

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The virus has changed everything (of course).
For now we're selling package and food-to-go
from the front of the Saloon, all week long,
 and three days a week have the patio open from 3 till 11,
 and serve drinks and beer and pizza and whatever - 
AT A DISTANCE!

Come see the new ENLARGED patio and
yell at each other's table over the music!  NO, NO, NO!
Everything is mellow.   And the beer is COLD!
And the afternoons this August are as hot as a pizza oven.
  Come see us and socialize while you sizzle and guzzle!
And distance...

UPDATE 11/12/20
Recent weeks have seen a SURGE in cases
across New Mexico and here in Socorro County.
We're going to temporarily stop serving food and
drink both indoors and on the patio. 
 Service is limited to pizza, taquitos, and eggrolls TO GO, and
 package sales.  Let's all do our part to get through this.
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
 
The only building left standing here now is Evett's, on the right.
All of what you see to the left - the Becker-MacTavish Co. store, followed by
the drugstore, the Silver Bell Saloon, the Hotel Aragon, etc. are all gone, as many
old western towns' buildings and storefronts are across the West - gone with the
  wind and the tumbleweeds, and, some folks will tell ya' - the insurance money,
when they got burned down as towns in the West fell on rough times.
It happend here.  A darn shame all-around.
  But, as an old cowboy philospher says,
 "History really isn't about places or things - 
 it's about PEOPLE,
 and what they did
 while they lived somewhere."
And Magdalena's got lotsa that kind'a history!
 
 
Short segments (2-5 minute) of the PBS television documentary "WAY OUT THERE" -
an award-winning program about Magdalena and this general part of New Mexico
first broadcast in '85 by KNME, Albuquerque, are now on the site,
scattered through the various pages.
The first one - titled "Early Magdalena" - is below.
It's a brief overview of the geologic, historical, and legendary background
of west-central New Mexico, and "Cow Town Magdalena" in particular.
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 .From No Life for a Lady by Agnes Morley Cleaveland 
 Published in 1941
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"There is a legend that Lady Magdalena Mountain was a sanctuary
 respected by the Indians, where fugitives, whether deservedly or not,
 found refuge from pursuing enemies. 
 The legend did not hold after the paleface came
shooting his way into the land.  Many a pursued man
 fell before his nemesis in the streets of Magdalena."
     
When Guns Speak Death
Charles Russell
     
     
     
     
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