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November 20, 2021, in Valencia County was just another crisp, clear autumn day on the farm for Tiffany Sánchez. As usual, she prepared herself for a full day of working with and training horses at Adelino Legacy Farms, her family’s op-eration.
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By Amy Smith MuisePhotographs by Gabriela Campos I met Greg Ball on a fine, hot morning in August, on a weekday when the museum wasn’t crowded. He’s been the livestock manager at the New Mexico Farm & Ranch Heritage Museum for twenty-four years now.
By Molly Boyle THEY CAME TO THE LUSH, vast land east of Las Cruces from places like Texas, Oklahoma, Socorro, and Magdalena in the waning years of the nineteenth century. To them, the Tularosa Basin looked like prime ranching country, sided by the Sacramento Mountains in the east and the San Andres and Oscura ranges to the west.
