#Llano Estacado

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Remembering a Sunday in Monahans Sandhills State Park by Mark Stevens Via Flickr: A setting looking to the northeast while taking in views across a sandy landscape with dune formations and wild grasses in Monahans Sandhills State Park.

[thomaswaynewolf]

In far west Texas and eastern New Mexico, there is a land so flat you’ll swear, if you squint hard enough into the infinite horizons, that you can see the back of your head. This treeless, sand dune, canyon and grass filled country stretches some fifty thousand square miles of land that used to be called The Great American Desert but today, is called The Llano Estacado or the High Staked Plains. In the deep past, it was home to Ground Sloths, Mammoths, and Bison before Clovis, Apache, and then the Comanche. The Spanish explored it, the New Mexicans hunted buffalo on it, the Americans fought the Indians on and around it. Coronado, Oñate, Kit Carson, and Robert E Lee all travelled across or around it’s flat emptiness.

In this Roadrunner exclusive episode of the American Southwest Podcast, I cover all of that and a whole lot more as I uncover the Tierra Incognita that is El Llano Estacado. I discuss what it looks like, how it distorts the mind, the creatures that live on it, the violent weather, the history of the American Indians including the mysterious Teya, the Spanish, The French, The English, the New Mexicans, the Comancheros, the Contrabandistas, the Ciboleros, the Texans, and finally, the Americans. I introduce important Southwestern Characters, animals, peoples, cultures, and battles. I quote from great authors who wrote fantastic books about the place that only those who hunted the bison, and those that hunted the bison hunters ever dared to venture into.

This is the first of many exclusive episodes for the Subscribers or Roadrunners and at 3 hours and 30 minutes, I hope that it satisfies everyone’s desire for awesome and exciting information on the American Southwest. Thank y’all for subscribing and listening.

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Wine, Dine and Art Walk in Lubbock, TX

Deep in the heart of West Texas, is the friendly town of Lubbock. With a little over 260,000 residents, it’s known as one of the biggest cotton producers in the U.S., and home to Texas Tech University, the second largest university in the Lone Star State. Located on 1,900 acres with an undergraduate and graduate school, plus a law school and medical school, many graduates stay and work in…

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“Llano Estacado” (The Staked Plain), 2013 by Norman Engel

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Bob Causey, Early Llano Estacado Blacksmith and Spur Maker (right)

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New Fiction Podcasts - 1st February

The 100 Handed: Lost Souls Audio Book Weep at the wonder. Howl at the horror. The tattooed magician Wexler and his werewolf partner V come face to face with the mysterious Hundred Handed in this action-packed season. Maya, an illusionist working for the Hundred Handed, is working fervently on a project that will cause countless deaths in Austin, Texas. Not to mention, Maya has a prisoner under her control. A prisoner suffering experimentation at the hands of Katherine, V's mother. A prisoner that could turn the tide in the Hundred Handed's favor. A prisoner that Wexler knows all too well . . https://audiofiction.co.uk/show.php?id=20240125-01 RSS: https://feeds.buzzsprout.com/2306657.rss

Transmissions from the Campfire Audio Book Warm your soul by the fire with short fiction of the dark, the odd and sometimes the outright disturbing. Stories written by Patrick Kitson and performed by Daniel Kelley https://audiofiction.co.uk/show.php?id=20240126-01 RSS: https://anchor.fm/s/f1391894/podcast/rss

The StarWell Foundation Audio Drama The StarWell Foundation is a comicbook audio drama about what happens when hospital stop asking to meet athletes, celebrities or superheroes and start asking to meet Villains. Recently promoted from intern, Mary Dare has take on the task of finding these crooks and criminals and convincing them to be a little not-so-bad. She has to deal with the villains not trusting her, the heroes don't trust and even her co-workers don't trust her while helping to inspire kids and bring some unpredictable joy to their life. https://audiofiction.co.uk/show.php?id=20240125-03 RSS: https://feeds.redcircle.com/f4680190-19fb-4622-b375-03acf8f452a0

Starbusters Audio Drama The adventures of Captain Zeppelin Caffrey & his crew as they travel across the galaxy aboard the Charlotte. https://audiofiction.co.uk/show.php?id=20240126-02 RSS: https://feeds.acast.com/public/shows/65b1fa870b04eb0016d40a3c

Gun and Wand: The Official Companion Podcast Audio Drama Gun and Wand: The Official Companion Podcast is literally the only podcast about the new gangster-fantasy TV drama Gun and Wand, now streaming on BHO. Join host Alfie Packham and producer Caroline McEvoy as they delve behind the scenes with cast interviews, episode breakdowns, and discussions of lore, magic, and wizard nudity. https://audiofiction.co.uk/show.php?id=20240101-14 RSS: https://feeds.acast.com/public/shows/658eff00ce70060016a2cd1e

Order & Defiance Audio RPG A 5th edition Dungeons & Dragons game with Michael Hodgins as Dasmer Elderstag, Crofton Steers as Tilton "Flea" Fowler, and Beau Schwartz as Dungeon Master. https://audiofiction.co.uk/show.php?id=20240123-05 RSS: https://feeds.acast.com/public/shows/order-and-defiance

Corvairs & Horny Toads Podcast Audio Book My collection of short stories focuses on a fictional small town on the Texas-New Mexico border. My stories show the surprising diversity of the people of the Llano Estacado, as well as the grit and determination it takes to survive and thrive on the windblown plains. https://audiofiction.co.uk/show.php?id=20240107-03 RSS: https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/2207183.rss

Jonathan Audio Drama Een jonge AIVD'er neemt het op tegen Russische infiltranten in Nederland. Volg de 6-delige serie en mis geen aflevering. Jonathan is een nieuwe serie van Inse Martin – een pseudoniem waarachter een oud aivd-medewerker schuilgaat. https://audiofiction.co.uk/show.php?id=20240122-02 RSS: https://feeds.acast.com/public/shows/65670dc146897a00133e06fe

Tales of Icarus Audio Book A series illustrating the sights that Icarus saw during his time soaring through the skies. These are original short stories written by your host, Daedalus, or Dae for short. Welcome to the world of my imagination, I am excited to share it with you. Don't fly too close to the sun. https://audiofiction.co.uk/show.php?id=20240118-03 RSS: https://anchor.fm/s/eeeadd5c/podcast/rss

”A Year of Tears and Laughter” Audio Drama Berwick Black Box Community Theater has started a series that follows different characters throughout the year as they encounter and deal with different holidays. Our mission is to bring performance opportunities and theatrical education to the community of Berwick Pennsylvania. https://audiofiction.co.uk/show.php?id=20240122-03 RSS: https://feed.podbean.com/clhosler99/feed.xml

Journey to the Heart Audio Drama In a world where everyone shares a tattoo with their soulmate, you'd think falling in love would be easy. Journey to the Heart follows three best friends as they go on an adventure of a lifetime. Albina, Babette, and Charlie are displeased with their soulmate tattoo, or lack of one, which leads them to go on an adventure that will change their lives forever. Journey to the Heart will be the first "choose your own journey" podcast musical. The audience will get to decide where the story goes and your choices will influence what happens as the story develops. https://audiofiction.co.uk/show.php?id=20240122-04 RSS: https://feeds.megaphone.fm/journeytotheheart

Limbo Calling Audio Drama Archive recordings from the Radio Limbo vaults, lovingly restored in this series from Limbo Tapes. A treasure trove of dispatches from an unnamed radio operator, revealing insights into Limbo culture, and the effects of being stationed at the ambiguous ”outpost”. https://audiofiction.co.uk/show.php?id=20240125-04 RSS: https://feed.podbean.com/limbotapes/feed.xml

Alice in Wonderland Audio Drama A curious young girl tumbles into a whimsical and fantastical world where she encounters peculiar characters and navigates surreal challenges, ultimately discovering herself in the process. https://audiofiction.co.uk/show.php?id=20240111-03 RSS: https://feeds.transistor.fm/alice-in-wonderland

Tarot Killer Audio Drama Welcome to Santa Muerte! A coastal metropolis populated with all types of people from politicians to star seekers, and most recently, murderers. The 1930s was a golden age of jazz, mobsters, and radio shows were just starting to take off. In 1934, the first victim to be associated with the Tarot Killer was revealed, shaking Santa Muerte to its core. Somehow, the killer seemed to elude even the most trusted of law enforcement. Diego Muerte and his partner Bonnie Future take the case to hunt down and put an end to the gruesome acts of the Tarot Killer. Listen in to this Radio Drama-like Podcast. https://audiofiction.co.uk/show.php?id=20240114-03 RSS: https://anchor.fm/s/f01c5624/podcast/rss

Rosas Amarelas: O Monólogo Audio Book Você está prestes a ouvir uma história de quase amor. Baseada em fatos reais criados por vozes da minha cabeça. Rosas Amarelas é uma ficção inspirada em fatos reais que dá origem ao meu primeiro disco. https://audiofiction.co.uk/show.php?id=20240107-04 RSS: https://anchor.fm/s/f018f4e8/podcast/rss

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From ”Breaking the Brazos,” Part 2 of Drifting Toward Disaster, the Texas Observer series on life-changing challenges facing Texans and their rivers: 

(For Part 1, see “The Second Rio Grande.”)

Few rivers can claim as strong a connection to Texas’ natural and cultural history—and its very identity—as the Brazos.

It drains the second-largest river basin in Texas, meandering for 840 miles from the Llano Estacado near Lubbock, cutting across prairie and limestone hills to woodlands, through farms and ranches, cities, towns, and coastal marshes before finally merging with the Gulf of Mexico south of Freeport’s giant petrochemical plants.

Spanish explorers named it Los Brazos de Dios, “the Arms of God,” because of the river’s many tributaries and life-saving waters. Texas’ first capital, when it was a colony authorized by the Spanish government, was founded on the Brazos at San Felipe de Austin. When it won its independence and became a short-lived republic, Texas established its capital at Washington-on-the-Brazos. The river has inspired poetry, art, and music. Perhaps most importantly for the Brazos’ own survival, it inspired an enduring book.

Fort Worth native and author John Graves wrote Goodbye to a River about a three-week canoe trip he had made on the Brazos in fall 1957. He wanted to memorialize the river he had hunted, fished, and paddled before it could be changed forever by a string of dams that had been proposed from Possum Kingdom to Whitney. Graves wrote of the beauty of the free-flowing river; the stories of the Comanches and Anglo settlers who had lived on its banks; and even mentioned the encroachment of industry in the form of a gravel pit.

The book—still in print since its publication in 1960—sparked a conservation movement and helped lead to the abandonment of plans for all but one of the downstream dams. In 2005, the Texas Legislature created the John Graves Scenic Riverway on the segment of the Brazos from below Possum Kingdom Lake to just above Lake Granbury and gave it stronger protections from rock mining.

The legislation tightened rules so that any quarry operating within a mile of the river must obtain a special permit. It banned new quarries or expansions located within 200 feet and those between 200 and 1,500 feet of the river unless they could meet specific criteria set to control erosion and protect wildlife habitats. The criteria also required a reclamation plan and the use of best-available technology.

Many quarries shut down as a result of the new restrictions, but tourism has flourished. Thousands of people a year kayak, canoe, fish, and swim in one of the state’s most picturesque stretches of river, framed by high rocky bluffs.

However, the rules that created the riverway are set to expire in 2025 unless activists can convince the Legislature to renew them. In the meantime, a much tougher fight faces the Brazos—and not just on the scenic section.

That’s the Gordian knot of development in the Brazos basin. Urban, suburban, and industrial growth is creating ever-increasing demands on the Brazos’ finite supply of water. It’s also adding to pollution as cities, farms, ranches, and industrial complexes return the Brazos’ water—sometimes clean, often polluted—to the river once they’ve used it for drinking, cooking, cleaning, raising livestock, watering crops, light-commercial to heavy-industrial processes, recreation, and watering hundreds of thousands of lawns.

Read more on the Texas Observer.

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The Ultimate Guide to Exploring Lubbock Texas

Introduction

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Table of Contents Getting to Know Lubbock Texas A Brief History of Lubbock Texas Geography and Climate of Lubbock Texas Interesting Facts About Lubbock Texas Exploring the Cultural Heritage The Buddy Holly Center: Celebrating the Legendary Musician The Museum of Texas Tech University: Discovering Art and Science National Ranching Heritage Center: Preserving the Cowboy Legacy Embracing Nature's Beauty Visiting the Joyland Amusement Park: Fun for All Ages Enjoying Outdoor Adventures at Buffalo Springs Lake Exploring Lubbock Lake Landmark: Uncovering Ancient History Taste the Flavors of Lubbock Sampling Local Delicacies at Cagle Steaks & BBQ Experiencing Tex-Mex Cuisine at Orlando's Restaurant Indulging in Sweet Treats at Sugarbakers Café & Bakery Unwind and Relax Finding Tranquility at McPherson Cellars Winery Pampering Yourself at The Woodhouse Day Spa Enjoying Live Music at The Blue Light Live Shopping in Style Discovering Unique Finds on the Antique Mall of Lubbock Exploring the South Plains Mall: Retail Therapy at Its Best Supporting Local Artists at The Caviel Museum of African American History Family-Friendly Fun Learning and Playing at Science Spectrum Museum Meeting Exotic Animals at the Lubbock Zoo Getting Active at Altitude Trampoline Park Events and Festivals Celebrating the West Texas culture at the National Cowboy Symposium & Celebration Dancing to Live Music at Hub City Country Jam Enjoying Fine Art at First Friday Art Trail Sports and Recreation Cheering for the Texas Tech Red Raiders: College Sports Fever Teeing Off at The Rawls Course: Golfing in Style Catching a Game at Jones AT&T Stadium: Football Frenzy

Day Trips from Lubbock

Exploring Caprock Canyons State Park: A Natural Wonder Discovering the Historic Town of Post, Texas Unwinding in Wine Country: Visiting Llano Estacado Winery

Lubbock's Nightlife

Sipping Craft Cocktails at The Lantern Tavern Dancing the Night Away at Wild West Lubbock Laughing Out Loud at The Blue Light Comedy Club

Lodging Options

Luxury Accommodations at Overton Hotel & Conference

[oudkee]

can everyone at work just leave me alone so i can read about the llano estacado on wikipedia in peace

[thorsenmark]

Monahans Windmill (Monahans Sandhills State Park) by Mark Stevens Via Flickr: While walking around part of the Pump Jack Picnic area with a view looking to the west across a dune ridges with wild grasses present in Monahans Sandhills State Park. This is in the Sandhills Picnic Pavilion portion of the state park. With this image, I decided to get down somewhat low behind nearby wild grasses on this sand dune and capture a look beyond to the windmill off in the distance. My thinking was while most of the windmill would be above the grasses, a portion would have to have that look through it. The blue skies would then be that color contrast to complement the image with earth-tones present in the lower portion.

[nataliehegert]

At the International UFO Museum in Roswell, New Mexico, a group of grey-skinned, silver clad extraterrestrials stand rigid under a metal flying saucer that periodically emits a cloud of vapor from its base. The ground under the aliens’ feet is made to look like rocky desert soil, with plastic cacti and yucca plants interspersed with real rocks and fake rocks, while a replica of a juniper tree partially obscures the metal stand that holds the spaceship aloft. The photo backdrop, instead of depicting the local scenery of Roswell, where the High Plains of the Llano Estacado drop off into the Chihuahuan Desert, erroneously places the figures in the Sonoran Desert, indicated by the presence of a few tall saguaro cacti.

Museum exhibits recount the story of the purported UFO crash in 1947 in a field just outside of Roswell and the subsequent theories of military coverups, alien autopsies, and actual top-secret government surveillance programs. A kind of 20th century folklore unfolds in the chronicling of close encounters of the first, second, and third kind: flying saucer sightings around the globe, reports of strange psychological effects and missing gaps of time, and (wildly) various sketches of alien lifeforms that people claim to have seen.

Outside the museum, one encounters little green men everywhere. On benches, in restaurants, on signs and lampposts.

Before the UFO Museum opened in the 90s the Roswell Incident mythology lay somewhat dormant, staying alive only in the inquisitive imaginations of the UFO obsessed. The museum now welcomes thousands of visitors a year, the linchpin of the city’s new identity as a mecca for alien tourism.

Artist Eric J. García came to Roswell for a year-long stay at the Roswell Artist-in-Residence program and found the critical mass of aliens “seeped” into his brain and started showing up in his artwork. “I started questioning, who’s the alien? Who’s from here, not from here?”

García, who is known for his graphic style and political cartoons, grew up in Albuquerque and got his BFA from the University of New Mexico with a minor in Chicano Studies, and then his MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Before that, he served in the Air Force for four and a half years.

He emerged from his service in a state of disillusionment. By that I mean he became aware of the “illusion” that the U.S. projected abroad and to its own citizenry. “Texas, the Alamo, the West, the idea of the cowboy, the frontier, [other] iconic Americana myths, these are super embedded,” he says.

The myth-building was on display in Roswell in an extremely conspicuous way: in the form of flying saucers and alien caricatures, all in service of tourism to the small Eastern New Mexico city. But it was all a grand distraction from the real truth, García found. Aliens were here, and they had in fact colonized the place.

In Roswell, I used to see these tourist shirts with an alien wearing a sombrero and serape, indicating that people from south of the border are not from here, are alien, are not human. Whereas there are many people crossing that border speaking Indigenous languages…They are from the Americas but now we’re calling them aliens.

In García’s video Alien Juxta (2021), he blends popular science-fiction images of extraterrestrials with “actual aliens”—juxtaposing Alf with Christopher Columbus, flying saucers with colonial ships. Even the language sounds sci-fi: the New World and the Old World. The Final Frontier.

Working with artist and video game designer Rafael Fajardo, García adapted the classic arcade game of Space Invaders, replacing the space aliens with cowboys, cannons, and cathedrals—symbols of American colonization. As the game player, you are an Indigenous person, shooting the invaders with a bow and arrow. “I want people to understand these perspectives,” García says, “that the colonial powers were not always here. There were a people here before you.”

To impress his message, García utilizes tactics of humor, satire, subversion, and a graphic style reminiscent of cartoons and the nostalgia of early video games. In his ink drawings, he often breaks down an image into basic geometric blocks, mimicking 8-bit graphics, a super-simplification of image and idea.

These tech-y icons, however, García renders in an ancient and Indigenous medium—cochineal ink, made from insects that inhabit the nopal cactus. When the Spanish brought cochineal back to Europe from the Americas, it became a phenomenon—carmine red. García also makes his own ink from the fruit of the nopal, the bright violet-pink of the prickly pear tuna, which is vivid and pretty, but unstable and lends itself to erasure if exposed to sunlight.

In Game Over (2023), García employs blood-red cochineal ink to depict the 1945 detonation of the first atomic bomb, the Trinity test, in the Tularosa Basin of New Mexico. Departing from the blocky 8-bit motif, a cloud billows up and away from the X on the map, indicating the lasting effects of fallout drifting across the surrounding region and up into the atmosphere. The moment the world entered the Anthropocene, according to some. GAME OVER, indeed.

During his service in in the Air Force, “working in the belly of the beast,” García came to learn the global extent of the U.S. military presence. He reflects on the pervasive myth of the benevolence and judiciousness of the U.S. empire, and how embedded the military-industrial complex actually is in our society:

I grew up completely militarized. I played G.I. Joes, I read G.I. Joe comics, I watched Rambo action movies, I played military video games, I was constantly being exposed to militarism, right here in Albuquerque with the Kirtland Air Force Base. Every day around six o’clock the Air Force chopper would fly over like clockwork. I was constantly bombarded.

His brother joined the military before him. It was understood that military service was a way out and a way to get to college. He says, “It was inevitable that I would join.”

Aim High is a recruiting slogan for the Air Force, but it also refers to García’s ultimate target when it comes to his artwork. He has his sights set on the biggest forces in the game: imperialism, colonialism, militarism, white supremacy.

With satire and wit, García exposes the construction of reality proffered by the powerful, the alien empire embedded in this land. Their narrative has evolved over the centuries, from the Doctrine of Discovery, to Manifest Destiny, to Make America Great Again or Build Back Better. But, with a blast from a ray gun, an arrow from a bow, or a stroke of the pen, García blows their cover, explodes their myths.

Eric J. García: Mythbuster, published as a fold-out gallery text on the occasion of the artist’s exhibition at Texas Tech University’s Landmark Gallery, February 17 - April 21, 2024.

[thomaswaynewolf]

Accompanying map for the Llano Estacado Member Exclusive Episode!

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BILBO WAS RIGHT!

Swept off to …indeed!

“It’s a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don’t keep your feet, there’s no knowing where you might be swept off to.”

Bilbo Baggins ~ The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

Truer words were never spoken; most who travel know this …the others sit on the couch. When I began the Teacher in Transition in 2020, the intent was to share how to adopt a way of life leaving behind a teaching career of thirty years. Primary among the goals of a successful transition was the ability to travel widely. Covid made obtaining checks on the list a bit difficult; but we’ve managed to go hiking in Arizona, camping in the Llano Estacado, traveling to Chicago, returning to Ireland and Scotland …not bad for two years. A unplanned addendum to this strategy occurred in January of ‘22 when my wife became a TRAVELING nurse. We were gonna hit the road in a bold, new fashion.

Out of the last 93 weeks, we’ve been on the road 62 of those weeks. Not exactly Charles Kurault or Anthony Bourdain but pretty damn adventurous. We have just returned from thirteen weeks living in Columbia, Missouri. It was an incredibly bittersweet departure as we were thoroughly charmed by the area, the mountains, the sites, the people and the city. I could see myself being there much longer. There’s always the guy who says, “you’ve said that about everyplace you’ve gone!” YEAH …WELL … I guess they’re right. What does this mean? I had a friend presume that I sure must hate East Texas. No, not hate; but definitely burned out on it. We avoided past opportunities to move to other places due to our children and to stay close to the old folks. Our boys have grown and now we are the elders and time waits for no one. Little two week vacations can no longer hold back the urge to get out of this place! (a salute to Eric Burdon and The Animals) But as Bilbo warned us …we have no idea where we might be swept off to!

Yes, new developments have occurred. There is a joy to returning to Nacogdoches for the interim six weeks between travel gigs, but with each adventure it seems less satisfying. It feels almost as if we no more than return home and get unpacked then I’m ready to get back to traveling. My wife is a bit more settled, but I see the adjustment struggle in her as well. It’s a positive struggle, because we know in a few weeks, we will be in completely new environs! It’s a mindset I never thought would develop, but …here ‘tis. It’s as if there is not anything to hold us here. I have wonderful friends at out cigar lounge, but truth be told our fondest Nacogdoches bonds all seem to be in the past. Our families all live in the Houston area or DFW or San Antonio or in the Blue Ridge. The only family members left in East Texas are …well, Kim, my almost ninety year old aunt and me. My Quadrumvirate all live away and we have numerous new friends from all over that we’ve met from our adventures. I …we didn’t fully anticipate this; but we’re not scared of it.

Traveling the world was always a “someday” state of mind; it’s someday and the clock is ticking. We’ve seen many other sides to the fence and in many cases the grass IS greener with mountains, new vistas, amazing cities, exotic tastes, mesmerizing art, new cultures, unique conversations, charming small towns, inspiring histories, and open minded folks. It’s a real scene man. It’s in Tuscany, in Missouri, in Mexico, in Canada, in Louisiana, in Edinburgh, in Austin, in Kentucky and on and on. These places we’ve been and will be soon. I love Nacogdoches and it was a sublime place to raise a family; but chapters come to a close as will the entire book one day. We have to see more. One day, Kim and I will find a quiet place to live out our lives, but in the interim …let’s see what’s over the hill.

[homovulcanensis]

Reise in den Orient in 31 Tagen

Teil 11

Teil 10_________________Teil 12

Unser Weg führte uns durch eine immense Ebene. Meilenweit war nichts zu sehen als Staub, Felsen und hin und wieder eine Eiche. Ausserdem war die Temperatur nicht gerade unerheblich. Winnetou fühlte sich wie zuhause, wie er mir mitteilte.

Mit der Zeit schlug uns die Landschaft allerdings auf die Stimmung.

"Erinnert sich mein Bruder an die Hitze im Llano estacado?", fragte er. Ich nickte.

"Wie könnte ich den Llano jemals vergessen?", fragte ich. Winnetou lächelte, als hätte ich ihm ein Kompliment gemacht. Das hatte ich schliesslich auch.

"Ob es hier wohl auch Stakesmen gibt?", fragte er sich selbst und betrachtete die Landschaft.

"Die Karawanenstrasse ist eindeutig als solche erkennbar.", warf ich ein, "Aber ich glaube, dass es auch hier Strassenräuber gibt."

Winnetou betrachtete den Horizont genauer. Es regte sich nichts.

"Von weitem sehen wir aus wie zwei Beduinen. Wir werden wohl kaum das Ziel eines Überfalls sein.", sagte ich.

"Ich hoffe, dass mein Bruder recht hat.", antwortete Winnetou.

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Billy the Kid. The Myth. The Legend. The Art.

A bone-chilling winter in 1880. The the vast Llano Estacado. The pursuit of Billy the Kid by Lincoln County Sheriff Pat Garrett. It is here that contemporary painter Thom Ross transports us …

A bone-chilling winter in December 1880 in the vast Llano Estacado, sets the stage for the pursuit of Billy the Kid by Lincoln County Sheriff Pat Garrett and his posse. The Llano Estacado is located in the Southwestern United States, encompassing parts of Eastern New Mexico and Northwestern Texas. One of the largest mesas or tablelands on the North American continent, its elevation rises from…