Our last update was from Roswell, NM - we then stopped for three nights at Sumner Lake State Park near Ft. Sumner, NM. The notable items about this area is, this is near where Billy The Kid was actually shot and killed by Pat Garret.
Billy The Kid, Alias William H. Bonney, and his real name Henry McCarty was shot here on July 14th, 1881.... Touring a local museum the story about Billy is not so much that he was an outlaw, but rather a folk hero in these parts. Regardless of what you believe, he was a colorful character and his story is good for the tourism in this area.
The real story of Ft. Sumner was the internment of the Navajo and Mescalera Indians in the mid 1800's here at Ft. Sumner. A recently constructed monument tells the story of this sad piece of American history. (One can feel sad about the treatment of American Indians and the treatment they rec'd. I'll say this though; If you look around, all people at one time or another in their history have been enslaved, murdered, conquered, rejected, hated, and so on it goes - it's the history of people since the beginning of time and they are all sad to hear about)
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| Bosque Redondo Monument |
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| Sumner Lake State Park, NM |
Palo Duro Canyon State Park is just about 25 miles South of Amarillo, Texas, and is the second largest canyon in the USA. The land around the canyon is flat as a pancake for hundreds of miles; desert, dry, hardly a tree in sight; then, you come to the State Park and drive down the canyon road and it's great! We'll be here until June 3rd. No cell phone service in the canyon. We can drive to the upper rim in about 20 minutes, a 6 mile drive....
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| This girl kept following me up a canyon trail. |
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