Silver City, NM is not a city; it’s a town. Still operating under its original town charter which apparently regulates prostitution. No further inquiries on the topic were made!
Silver City was the childhood home of Billy the Kid, leading to Marty Robbins singing about him: “,,,in old Silver City he went to the bad…” I always thought his name was William Bonney, but in the Silver City Museum he had a few other names. Turns out he was born William McCarty, but was Kid Antrim after his stepfather. He just decided to call himself William Bonney.
Anyway, a really nice little museum that we stumbled on our way to Gila Cliff Dwellings National Monument.
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- Silver City Museum.
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- Past owner of the house the museum is now in was a Mexican women. Listed as White in the 1880 Census. A category for Mexican was not introduced until 1930.
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- Pow Wow Singers by Allan Houser, Apache artist in the museum.
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- Billy the Kid’s home. Well, the spot is the same, but the cabin is from a movie.
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- This was Main Street until the flood. Now it’s “The Big Ditch.”
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- Bullard Avenue became the new main street.
