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50 images Created 2 Dec 2012

No Man's Land

The area of the Oklahoma Panhandle, through extreme northeastern New Mexico and southeastern Colorado is called No Man's Land because years ago it was a remote, wild area with few people and a very difficult place to live. Even today it is not well traveled or explored because of the attraction of the Rocky Mountains nearby and the desolation of the area.
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  • A huge summer thunderstorm rolls out of the Rockies and dumps large amounts of rain and hail in the plains of eastern New Mexico. I think this picture tells how difficult it is to live in eastern New Mexico.  It shows the isolation, the extreme weather, and the lack of hope.
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  • A huge summer thunderstorm rolls out of the Rockies and dumps large amounts of rain and hail in the plains of eastern New Mexico
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  • A summer thunderstorm left the roads wet in Roy, New Mexico
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  • A fast moving thunderstorm left the roads wet east of Wagon Wheel, New Mexico.
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  • A summer thunderstorm left the roads wet in Roy, New Mexico
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  • Dividing line between New Mexico, Oklahoma and Colorado
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  • Windmill pumping water in northeast New Mexico
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  • Many of these windmills have been replaced by electric pumps, but in some remote areas without electricity they still use the old fashioned windmills to pump water for livestock.
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  • Windmill pumping water in northeast New Mexico.  Many of these windmills have been replaced by electric pumps, but in some remote areas without electricity they still use the old fashioned windmills to pump water for livestock.
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  • A late evening summer thunderstorm left the roads wet in Roy, New Mexico
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  • A summer thunderstorm left the roads wet in Roy, New Mexico
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  • A huge summer thunderstorm rolls out of the Rockies and dumps large amounts of rain and hail in the plains of eastern New Mexico. This photo depicts the isolation of people in eastern New Mexico.
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  • A thunderstorm passes the Canadian River gorge about 20 miles west of Wagon Wheel, New Mexico
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  • Abandoned ranch house on the plains of southeastern Colorado along Highway 162.
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  • Horses grazng in open pasture in northeast New Mexico
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  • Horses grazing in pasture with Colorado mountains in background. About 10 miles east of Trinidad, Colorado.
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  • A thunderstorm brews in the background while two broodmares and a colt graze in a pasutre east of Trinidad, Colorado.
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  • An inquisitive colt stops by to check me out while grazing with his momma in eastern Colorado near Trinidad.  A large thunderstorm brews in the background.
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  • Horses along a road near Black Mesa State Park in far northwestern Oklahoma panhandle.
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  • Typical rural road on the plains of eastern New Mexico.  Roads are very difficult to maintain because of the extreme weather changes and lack of people to pay taxes to maintain them.
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  • mailbox of the Ford Ranch in southeastern Colorado near the New Mexico border.
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  • Paloma Cattle Company ranch headquarters near Folsom, New Mexico
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  • Abandoned ranch house in eastern Colorado valley near New Mexico border. These old farmhouses were typicall built out of native stone from the area.
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  • Mule deer seen at the Ford Ranch in southestern Colorado, right next to the New Mexico border.  Deer populate the draws and arroyo's in the area.
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  • Mule deer growing horns for fall season at Ford Ranch in southeast Colorado near New Mexico border.  Saw dozens of deer in this valley.
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