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We took a road trip up to Lincoln today. We went there last year (check the separate blog page on the right for photos and write up on that visit). It was lightly snowing there today and just above freezing. I love visiting this area in the dead of winter because there are only maybe one or two other visitors there and only a couple of vehicles to be seen, so it was easy to put yourself back in time to the late 1800s and the Lincoln Wars era.
We visited the old Murphy Store/Courthouse where Billy Bonney (Kid) was held in an upstairs room in leg irons and made his famous escape by shooting two of his jailors.
Recent luminal tests show a huge amount of blood on the floor at the top of the inside staircase and trailing down the steps, marking the area where one of the jailers, JW Bell, was shot by Bonney and died a few steps out into the backyard.
On my first visit there I felt a huge wall of energy hit me, not at the top of the stairs, but actually farther down the upstairs hall, as soon as I started to enter into the room that was used as an armory during that time, and the room that, by some accounts, Kid apparently broke into and took the gun to shoot Bell with. The same thick and heavy energy was still present on this trip as well, and only in that room. This building was also used as a school in later years, so I don't know where this energy is emulating from, but the siolitary window looks directly down on the spot where Bell is said to have died. New Mexico is truly a most interesting state.
We took a road trip up to Lincoln today. We went there last year (check the separate blog page on the right for photos and write up on that visit). It was lightly snowing there today and just above freezing. I love visiting this area in the dead of winter because there are only maybe one or two other visitors there and only a couple of vehicles to be seen, so it was easy to put yourself back in time to the late 1800s and the Lincoln Wars era.
We visited the old Murphy Store/Courthouse where Billy Bonney (Kid) was held in an upstairs room in leg irons and made his famous escape by shooting two of his jailors.
Recent luminal tests show a huge amount of blood on the floor at the top of the inside staircase and trailing down the steps, marking the area where one of the jailers, JW Bell, was shot by Bonney and died a few steps out into the backyard.
On my first visit there I felt a huge wall of energy hit me, not at the top of the stairs, but actually farther down the upstairs hall, as soon as I started to enter into the room that was used as an armory during that time, and the room that, by some accounts, Kid apparently broke into and took the gun to shoot Bell with. The same thick and heavy energy was still present on this trip as well, and only in that room. This building was also used as a school in later years, so I don't know where this energy is emulating from, but the siolitary window looks directly down on the spot where Bell is said to have died. New Mexico is truly a most interesting state.
Above: View out the window of the armory room
The bench in the upstairs courtroom
Standing in the armory room, looking across hall into courtroom
An old adobe house with a billion windows
The safe downstairs in the old Murphy store/courthouse
Can't seem 'em, but there's caves up there
A couple of old rifles, Apache Winchester on the right
Shackles Kid escaped in, later cut off in Las Cruces, NM
Walls used to make a small room where the two windows are, and that's where Kid was being held in the courthouse
Above: Top rifle is the 1878 Winchester that belonged to Bill Bonney (Kid). It was confiscated by Pat Garrett following Billy's death
Below that is Bob Olinger's 10-gauge Whitney shotgun (Serial #903) that Kid killed him with on April 28, 1881
Above: Looking straight out of armory room window
Above: Another shot of the upstairs area where Kid was held
1 comment:
Wow! Oh man does the campground look different. It's neat to see the pics you posted of Lincoln after just being there. That old courthouse gives a much more real experience since it's not all fixed up. I loved it. The things those walls have seen. This snow stranded me and the two wheeler in Las Cruces today so I just stayed in the room all day and hibernated. Your dog definitely looks at home in the snow! Take care guys and good post again.
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