Word: mex
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...roles were reversed. The editor was suing one of his readers. And to add to the novelty, the editor won. Bill McGaw, owner, editor, publisher and principal reporter of the Southwesterner claimed that his monthly journal of Western lore had been damaged by the actions of Alamogordo, N. Mex., Furniture Dealer A. A. Webster Jr.. a member of the John Birch Society. And a jury agreed -to the amount...
...tough-talking hombre with a shock of silver-white hair and a mustache to match, Bill McGaw, 51, does not usually concern himself with current events. He likes to roam the West, tracking down such legends as the saga of the one-woman bawdyhouse in Columbus, N. Mex. Along the way he collects Western relics, including the stagecoach that may have carried President Polk to his inauguration. In July 1963 he learned that the New Mexico Press Association had held a dinner in honor of defeated' California Congressman John Rousselot, who is presently the public relations director...
...Whose own daughter, Victoria, 23, surprised them on the day of Anne's wedding by quietly marrying divorced Long Islander Barend van Gerbig, 26, in Las Cruces, N. Mex...
McNelly of the Tex-Mex. At war's end, with no more Mexicans to kill, the Rangers were temporarily disbanded. But in 1874, the corps was reconstituted in two battalions-one assigned to the frontier to arbitrate range wars, the other posted to the Tex-Mex border to control cattle rustling. The leader of the border patrol, Captain L. H. McNelly, is generally acknowledged as the greatest Ranger of them all. He mounted a scarum series of across-the-border raids against Mexican rustlers, and then capped his campaign with perhaps the most famous action in the history...
Blacked out for two hours were some 50 cities and towns, including El Paso, Ciudad Juárez, Truth or Consequences, Las Cruces and Alamogordo, New Mex...