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Fox Cave
Fox Cave is located on East Highway 70 between Roswell, New Mexico, Roswell and Alamogordo, near Ruidoso, New Mexico.Lemay, John. ''Towns of Lincoln County''. Arcadia Publishing, 2010, p. 90 It was once used as a hideout by William H. Bonney, better known as Billy the Kid and also known as Henry Antrim, a 19th-century American gunman who participated in the Lincoln County War and became a frontier outlaw in the American Old West. Originally known as "Ice Cave" in the late 1800s and early 1900s, the rocks of Fox Cave are primarily Micrite, micritic limestone. The cave was formed over thousands of years by erosion of the rock caused by the Ruidoso River.Steven J. Skotnicki (May 2009)"Preliminary Geologic Map of the Lincoln Quadrangle,Lincoln County, New Mexico" ''New Mexico Bureau of Geology and Mineral Resources'' References Further reading * {{coord, 33.3767, -105.5158, type:landmark_region:US-NM, display=title Caves of New Mexico Landforms of Lincoln County, New Mexi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roswell, New Mexico
Roswell () is a city in, and the County seat, seat of, Chaves County, New Mexico, Chaves County in the U.S. state of New Mexico. Chaves County forms the entirety of the List of micropolitan areas in New Mexico, Roswell micropolitan area. As of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census it had a population of 48,422, making it the fifth-largest city in New Mexico. It is home of the New Mexico Military Institute (NMMI), founded in 1891. The city is also the location of an Eastern New Mexico University campus. Bitter Lake National Wildlife Refuge is located a few miles northeast of the city on the Pecos River. Bottomless Lakes State Park is located east of Roswell on U.S. Route 380, US 380. The Roswell incident was named after the town, though the crash site of the alleged UFO was some from Roswell and closer to Corona, New Mexico, Corona. The investigation and debris recovery was handled by the local Roswell Army Air Field. On the 50th anniversary of the Roswell UFO incident the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
