Almost 5 years ago to the date we visited Billy the Kid’s grave in Fort Sumner, NM and a week or so earlier on our way west we had stopped in the town of Hico, TX where the folks think he died there in 1950.
We did stop at the site of the Lincoln County War. Here is where Henry McCarty, AKA Billy the Kid, staged his jail break by killing two US Marshalls. Billy was awaiting execution for murder during the “war” between cattle baron factions. Every first weekend in August they reenact Billy’s murderous escape in a small replica of the town seen above.
We ate lunch in Roswell and it was a great lunch too, we both can highly recommend Geli’s Cafe. That was all we did there, I mean how many times can you visit the International UFO Museum & Research Center? But if you are into the whole UFO thing, New Mexico has gone all in on it. On the state DOT map there are 5 UFO crash sites listed, 1947 Roswell, B010, Communion Hill, Alternate and San Antonio (NM).