Preservation: Remember the Alamo (Replica)
By: Mark Boardman 11/03/2009
Billy the Kid Returns
More good news from the New Mexico History Museum (NMHM): historic letters written by Billy the Kid are available for public viewing.
Those messages—written by the Kid to New Mexico Territorial Gov. Lew Wallace—were in storage for the last few years as ownership of the documents kept changing (one museum taking over another, which took over another). The letters ended up in the new NMHM, which has placed them in its Fray Angelico Chavez History Library. Also in the collection: an arrest warrant for cattle baron John Chisum and lawman Pat Garrett’s cattle-brand certificate.
“A significant ‘rediscovery,’” says Lincoln County War expert Fred Nolan. He and True West Publisher Emeritus Robert G. McCubbin were the first members of the public to see the letters in their new home. They won’t be the last.
505-476-5200 • NMHistoryMuseum.org
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My wife and I visited Alamo Village on Thanksgiving day 2006 and enjoyed a very memorable day. There were only a handful of visitors that day and we were invited to have Thanksgiving dinner with the Shahan family and all of the employees who were also treated by the Shahans as family. We were welcomed with warmth and felt very much at home and had a great meal at no charge. We spent the entire day touring the facility and thoroughly enjoyed it and are very sad that it is no longer open to the public. I sincerely hope that a way to resume operation is found, as we have been looking forward to a return visit ever since our first. It's a great and unique place.
Happy Shahan was a personal friend of mine. I 'starred' in a video there in 1991.
I had to climb a tall ladder to the top of the "Alamo" and raise the Texas flag at the beginning of the film. It's a great place to film commercials and movies. It saddens me to know the public can't visit it anymore.
Jim Gough Liberty Hill, Texas
Had a buddy(Doug Bridwell) who played guitar, sang and did the shoot outs there in the 70's with Johnny Rodriquez...He told some funny stories of his time there, Happy SHahan, Tom T. Hall and others.Too bad this legacy will die out with the old timers....
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