May 6-13, 2013 – Silver City, NM
.JPG)
Monday morning we drove to Silver City, NM where we are staying at the Rose Valley RV Ranch. All the sites have rustic wind breaks which tell us that the wind blows here a lot. We are backed up to an open space and have enjoyed watching the wildlife through our big picture window – mostly rabbits, roadrunners and crows. The jackrabbits here are huge! The RV park is next to the Memory Lane Cemetery where Catherine McCarty Antrim, Billy the Kid’s mother, is buried. Ben Lily, a mountain man who was a bear and mountain lion hunter, is also buried here. Ben Lily is in the Larry McMurtry Lonesome Dove books and movies. We went to the cemetery on one of our walks and found these two famous graves. We visited this area about four years ago and hiked on the Catwalk National Recreation Trail in the Gila National Forest north of Silver City. This trail was once a water pipeline that supplied water to an ore mill at the entr