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Page i Tularosa

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Page iii Tularosa Last of the Frontier West C. L. Sonnichsen UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO PRESS Albuquerque

Page iv Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Sonnichsen, Charles Leland, 1901 Tularosa, last of the frontier West. Reprint of the 1960 ed. published by Devin-Adair Co., New York. Bibliography Includes index. 1. Tularosa ValleyHistory. 2. Frontier and pioneer lifeNew MexicoTularosa Valley. I. Title. [F802.T8S6 1980] 978.9'65 80-52286 ISBN 0-8263-0563-6 ISBN 0-8263-0561-X (pbk.) Copyright 1960, 1980 by C. L. Sonnichsen. All rights reserved. University of New Mexico Press edition reprinted 1980 by arrangement with The Devin-Adair Co. Manufactured in the United States of America. Library of Congress Catalog Card Number 80-52286. ISBN 0-8263-0563-6 (clothbound) ISBN 0-8263-0561-X (paperback) Eighth paperback printing 1998

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Page vii Preface to the New Edition In 1960, when this book was about to go to press, the Tularosa Valley, lonely and remote as it was, could not be called undiscovered country. Albert Bacon Fall, Pat Garrett and Eugene Manlove Rhodes were well known, and for fifteen years the White Sands Missile Range had been very much in the news. Three novels suggested by the Fountain murders (Florence Finch Kelly, With Hoops of Steel, 1900; Eugene Cunningham, Spiderweb Trail, 1940; Conrad Richter, The Lady, 1957) had been published, though none of them made any great splash. The Mescalero Apaches, the lava beds, the White Sands, the mountain summer colonies, mining activities at Orograndethese and many other related matters occasionally caught the attention of historians and magazine writers. After 1960, however, this modest stream of publication increased in volume and interest. In that year Richard O'Connor produced a full-length biography of Pat Garrett (New York: Doubleday), and historians like Robert N. Mullin and Philip J. Rasch, along with reminiscent old timers like Bert Judia and

Page viii James Madison Hervey, began to dig into the Garrett story. Colin Rickards in 1970, in a firmly researched little volume called How Pat Garrett Died, surveyed this accumulation of material and drew his own conclusions. The same year saw the publication of Glenn Shirley's Shotgun for Hire (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press), an account of the lethal career of "Deacon" Jim Miller, and in 1971 Robert N. Mullin produced The Strange Story of Wayne Brazel (El Paso: privately printed)both dealing with reputed slayers of Garrett. Very nearly the last word was in when Leon Metz published his biography of the great frontier peace officer in 1974. The most controversial work in the field of Tularosa history, however, has been A. M. Gibson's The Life and Death of Colonel Albert Jennings Fountain (University of Oklahoma Press, 1965) which paints Fountain as a frontier cavalier without fear and without reproach. At the same time Gibson openly accuses A.B.Fall and Oliver Lee of engineering the disappearance of Fountain and his eight-year-old son in 1896. The book brought cries of indignation from the families and friends of the accused men and vigorous protests from a number of reputable historians. W. H. Hutchinson, for instance, called the biography a "whitewash" of Fountain and "a conviction of murder on hearsay evidence" (San Francisco Chronicle, July 18, 1965). In a small book, Another Verdict for Oliver Lee (Clarendon, Texas, 1965) he answered Dr. Gibson at length. Less lethal aspects of life in the Tularosa area have appealed to several writersDorothy Neal Jensen's Captive Mountain Waters (El Paso Texas Western Press, 1961), for instance, and Cloud Climbing Railroad (Alamogordo: privately printed, 1966) by the same author. Novelists and scenario writers have likewise been involved. Edward Abbey's Fire on the Mountain (New York: Dial Press, 1962) tells a story much like John Prather's, and Scandalous John, to which moviegoers

Page ix were responding emotionally in 1971, is reminiscent of the same theme. Time has brought changes, of course. The Apollo Program, which helped to put men on the moon, has closed down, but the scientists and technicians at White Sands Missile Range have new projects to keep them in constant motion. A new edition of this book, with some corrections and additions, may be a timely reminder that the Tularosa country is still a tremendously exciting place and will be for the foreseeable future. C. L. SONNICHSEN TUCSON, 1980

Page xi Contents Tough Country 3 With Plow and Rifle 9 Texas Cattle 17 Blood on the Sand 28 Lead and Law 39 The Lives of Albert Fountain

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