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Bicycle Tour Adventure #40

Day 1, 2, 3,
Side Visits: Pinos Altos, Gila Cliff Dwellings,
Petroglyph National Monument

Pictures and Stories About Bicycle Tour Adventures

Great Divide Mountain Bike Route (GDMBR - Segment):
Tyrone, Tyrone Copper Mine, Silver City, Pinos Altos,
Lake Roberts, to Gila National Forest, (Southern Section),
New Mexico; By Bicycle Tour; February (Valentine's Week), 2012


Touring Pinos Altos, New Mexico

Opera House. Buckhorn Saloon.
Above Left: Opera House.

Above Right: Buckhorn Saloon (still active).

Museum.
Above Left: Museum; once a Home and a School.

Above Right: 3rd Generation Museum Proprietor George Schafer (who enjoys dressing the part).



Cool Mule Story, about Judy.
Above: Cool Mule Story, about Judy.




Mimbres Pottery chards, artifacts and arrow heads.
Above: Mimbres Pottery chards, artifacts and arrow heads.
Mimbres Pottery is typically characterized as black (or shades of black) on white.
The pottery owned by a dead person was believed to contain a part of the spirit of the dead person and the spirit could and should be released by punching a hole in the bottom center of the piece. Such a piece is identified as with a 'death hole'.





Above: Pinos Altos Museum.


Above: The Santa Rita del Cobre Fort and Trading Post was a 3/4 scale of the actual fort built at the Santa Rita copper mines in 1804 by the Spanish to protect the miners from Apache attacks. Fort Santa Rita was renamed Fort Webster in 1851 by the American Army. The former trading post is now a private residence.


Above Left: The Norton Store (Not Judge Roy Bean's Store).

The general store that Roy Bean was a part owner was located next to the current Post Office. Bean's store was built in the early 1860s during the gold rush and was run by Roy and his brother Samuel. The Trappers Cafe is now located on the store's original site. Roy Bean also had a home one block east of today's Norton Store. [Judge] Roy Bean's house is now someone's private home and it has been converted to a modern log/wood home and is no longer recognizable as an 1860s styled home. We saw the home but did not take a picture. It was after Bean's stay at Pinos Altos that he went to Texas to become a Judge.

Above Right: John McDonald's Cabin, built circa 1860.


This ends the Pinos Altos Town Tour.


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