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Cimarron, NM Vintage
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Old Stone Jail,
Cimarron,
New Mexico
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Frederick D. Nichols,
1954
This image available for
photographic prints and downloads
HERE!
Kathy Weiser, September, 2008.
During
Cimarron's wild and bawdy boom days, the town was badly in need of
a jail to house some of the more violent characters and in the fall of
1872, construction began on this stone building. At one time, the
building was surrounded by an outer stone wall that was 10 feet high and 4 feet thick.
Though the wall is long gone, parts of the foundation can still be
seen. The southeast corner of the structure once housed a small
sheriff's office. In the early 1900s, an inmate tried to escape,
leaving a huge gap in the outer wall from a dynamite blast. The jail
continued to be used until the early 1960s.
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Great American Bars and Saloons
 By
Kathy Weiser
Owner/Editor of Legends of America
Kathy Weiser's first venture into the publishing world takes you into the
many watering holes of America's past, particularly the numerous
saloons
that sprouted up during our nation's
Wild West
days. This great
photographic review displays hundreds of
vintage photographs from
California
to
Arizona, the mining camps of
Colorado, all the way to New
York and its turbulent days of
Prohibition.
Hardcover, 2006, 224 Pages.
Signed by the author!!
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