I went to BILLY THE KIDS Hideout 

Some excellent copper ore in them hills it looks. Bet a good bit of gold in that same area too.

Thanks yeah .. I tried to think like them ...

Wow thats something .. We need to get together again and talk Thanks

Yes sir we do. I used to sit around my grandparents porch in Deming and listen to my grandad and his brothers talk about the kid and the regulators. Their dad met Pat Garrett once , and he had his opinion. Yea I got a ton of their theories in my head.

I grew up in Las Cruces from ‘58 to ‘74. In the mid ‘60s dad to us to several ghost towns. Was interesting to see it as if the people just left! I imagine it’s been looted by now. The Organ Mountains has many mines. As a Boy Scout we hiked and camped all over the mountains. Dad deer hunted around the Dona Anna Mts. and Cooks Peak. Many memories.

Yep, Billy lived very close to where the Wild Wolf Sanctuary property is now for at least a year or so.

I seen a couple of interviews about Billy the kid and it's true Pat Garrett did let him go under a promise that he leave and never come back or he would shoot him and billy did leave and he lived in Texas and became a farmer under a different name and he did have children and he did have a daughter and when she was in her senior year she was telling her story about Billy the kid and the story goes on...

I'm with .. like em all thanks !

Mule, every time!

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Thanks and same to you ..

Thats way too hot .. I did have a good fathers day and i hope you did too ... Thanks

I will look him up ... Thanks

I've been there. Amazing country but rough as heck lol

Thanks .. I still got to get together with you sometime .. I've been real busy...Thanks

@@BrettVaughnB100 no worries brother

There is a cave outside of Ruidoso that is said to go all the way to Lincoln

That would be cool to find .. I'm going to do some research and try to find some other places to ride too .. Thank you

Thanks, you too!

I will .. Thanks

@@BrettVaughnB100 How do all those hounds keep from stumbling into rattlesnakes while they are loping through the desert?

We will see .. lol thanks

Gotta take care of your partners .. Thanks

@@BrettVaughnB100 I hate snakes too.... there is no lower animal then a damn snake....

Glad you enjoy them .. Thanks for watching

Must not be worth anything though or they would be mining it I guess .. Thanks

@@BrettVaughnB100 your probably right, although miners and geologists do make mistakes! If you could have that deep scanning satellite go over it and do a surface and a deep scan, then you would know what's there for sure? I don't have enough pull to get them to do that. LOL

@@toddritchie9137 I'll talk to them about it .. lol

Thank you! Will do!

Thanks .. hopefully more to come

Yes .. you've been there ? thanks

Thank you .. thats great that your still riding stay after it .. Thank you!

lol ... probably lots of ghosts up and down that canyon.. thanks

@@BrettVaughnB100 :)

Glad you enjoyed it .. where do you do the reenacting ? Thanks

@@BrettVaughnB100 welcome, Our group performs in Payson, we have done Holbrook, Young (Pleasant Valley) one Saturday at Apache Junction Goldfield.

My grandpa worked for a big TX Panhandle rancher named Obertheir as a young cow puncher who ran away from home at 14y.o. from Moran TX. He got off the freight train in Lubbock TX, worked construction until he'd saved enough to buy a horse and a few old bred cows. He followed his cows out toward Clovis, NM camping on the unfenced, open prairie the first summer and fall. Obertheir encountered my grandpa as he grazed across his open range land 50 miles east of Muleshoe. That land had been purchased when the XIT Ranch began selling off the Ten (counties) In Texas that British consortiums bought in exchange for fronting TX money to build the magnificent pink granite capitol in Austin. Mr Obertheir offered to buy my grandpa's cow-calf pairs and give him a job keeping watch on his herd which was too far from Obertheir's HQ for him to keep an eye on. Obertheir had a teamsters deliver lumber for a one room shack my teen-age (about 17 y. o. grandpa had to build. Shacks on the open prairie often became a way point for travelers. Grandpa had overnight guests of random "outlaws" who'd be traveling east from various points (hideouts) in NM territory. Some of the visitors helped themselves to "stray" horses or a young steer, killed, quartered and thrown across a spare horse to deliver as a gift to a friend offering them a few days of refuge as they traveled toward their destination. Grandpa had many stories of having surprise overnight guests who'd arrive about dark. It was considered inhospitable if he didn't offer them a can of beans, a biscuit and a cup of coffee. He lived a pretty austere life, but most of his more mysterious guests didn't want to talk much. If they talked at all it would be about where they came from or where they were going. He said his guests destinations were often misleading. As he grazed the cattle herd the following days he'd find tracks where they'd left his shack heading one direction, made a big wide loop to head off in another direction. He believed he had hosted Billy and a few other less legendary train robbers, cattle/horse thieves and outlaws during his several yrs in that bachelor cow camp. Oberthier treated him well and his excellent work ethic was rewarded with cattle amounting to the number lost previous to his hiring. By age 25 grandpa had his own cattle herd, leased Oberthier's pastures and married my grandmother when her family bought (1896) a nearby ranch on which to pasture their excellently bred horses.

​@@rt3box6tx74wow amazing family history. Sounds like your grandpaw was a character 😂

@wastelandwarrior9738 He died 6 months after I was born, but despite losing half his assets during the Great Depression and Dust Bowl drought he left all his children a gift money can't buy. Dogged fortitude and an exemplary work ethic. Every generation of his progeny has grown the modest legacy he left them. There are several accounts of his life in a basic cow camp in a book by Lillie Mae Hunter (an elderly school teacher) who became the county unofficial historian writing about our county's pioneers. The first time grandad was offered an automobile ride he stood on the running board so he could jump free if things went awry. Within a few yrs of being introduced to the automobile he said, "Any time you can trade two horses for one you're making a good deal." My male cousins who romanticize the cowboy life cringe every time I offer that quote - but that is no rumor, he said that to my dad when they were hauling cowfeed with a couple of old 1930s trucks from NM to grandpa's (hungry) fancy registered Hereford cattle in the central TX Panhandle during a decade long drought. I have the bank loans he took out to buy the cowfeed that almost bankrupted him. He had too much faith in FDR's ability to reset the economy. LOL, nobody's perfect!

Thanks .. same to you !

Yep .. Put up more videos Chris

I'm going to look it up and get it .. Thanks!

All of mine have survived that were bit in the head.. Thanks

Thank you ..and same

Awesome! Thank you! Glad we could help

Thank you .. I will check into it .. more to come

Ancient Volcanic Ash

Thanks George ..

You bet .. Thank you for watching

Thanks Jeff .. Onward and upward !!!👍👍

You bet .. Thank you for watching

Glad you like them! Thanks for watching

Same to you .. Thanks

I use to have a few emus but they weren't free roam ... but I have heard that before .. Thanks

Awesome! Thank you! She was a good one

Thanks .. it is a good look out spot .. there is an old homestead right down from there .. and pretty close an intermittent spring

Thanks you .. I will check next time

Thanks .. I do like to take these rides

Glad you enjoyed it Thank you!

Thats great thanks for watching

Great story sounds like a good place .. I bet you do miss it .. glad I can help thank you

Thanks George same to you .. it was a good ride

Could be .. thanks

Cool .. where was this at? Thanks

@@BrettVaughnB100 Puerto de Luna NM.

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@@BrettVaughnB100 I'd love to see things like that i have no car.. I'd like to get out of Arkansas people around here are jerks

It is getting big for sure .. still good mexican food .. Thanks

I might go back I do have one .. Thanks

My partners .. Thanks

I'm just a simple man lol .. Thanks

You and me both ... they say there were names on the rocks but I couldn't find them .. Thanks

True ... but why let the truth get in the way of a good story lol but who knows for sure

Glad you enjoyed it Thanks for watching

I appreciate that Thanks

Too hot for me too .. I did ride around it some but didn't climb up everywhere .. funny thing I got a call on a lion track the next canyon over the following day .. I went out this morning and trailed him for a while until it got too hot for the hounds .... Thanks

@@BrettVaughnB100 Its a tough life, but someone must do it, Brett….it may as well be you, and Big Agnes, riding the ridges…….and filming ! Thanks……Colorado gets hot enough in summer, fo me….aint retirement great !

Thank you .. we have some good friends from Michigan ..

Thanks Rick .. I think your right

I'm not sure what it is ? Thanks

Yes sir.. more to come .. I have a big bucket lol Thanks

Thanks !

Thanks and happy fathers day to you too

Glad you found it .. Thank you

Any time!

lol yeah probably .. Thanks

Thats great Thank you!!

lol more trips like that and you will have callouses Thanks

That would be cool .. thanks

I have some old mining camps I am goi g to try and find .. thanks

Awesome! Thank you!

Thank you

lol probably .. thanks

Don't know? down the canyon?

I would like to ride to the hole in the wall .. maybe someday .. Thanks