Pidgeon's Ranch Trail

[Rear Guard]

For those in the east who may not know, I am posting a couple a photos showing the Glorietta trail and endangered Pidgeon's Ranch in the Pecos National Historical Park near Santa Fe, New Mexico. This illustrates how really close this surviving ranch building is to the highway 50. Fighting actually took place on this ranch site, and it is located on the historic Santa Fe trail of which traces can still be seen. Building a Hwy 50 bypass around this site seems to be the only solution to saving this endangered site. Let's not let another endangered battlefield fade away to oblivion.

[tmattimore]

Re: Pidgeon's Ranch Trail

My first reenactment was here. We camped on Windmill Hill. It would be nice if it could be saved but the local politics seem insumountable. I know Sen Domenici busted his butt to try and get something done many years ago but the best that could be done then was the monument. Glorietta baptists won't give up any land the local land owners fought historic status and only after the grave was found could Sen. Pete force the NPS to give some protection but Pecos Natl. Monument has always considered the battlefield as a red headed step child. The state always has cried poor mouth claiming they don't have the coin for a survey of a new road and they would rather take more land to widen the highway so that the millionares who are being pushed out of Sani Flush by the billionares can move out near Don Imus and commute from Ribera.
Not that I have any strong opinions on the matter