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The crossroads of History. Northeast is the Ghost Town of White Oaks, a once booming mining camp, where Emerson Hough lived and laid the scene of this book, Heart's Desire. Famous names like Billy the Kid, Sheriff Pat Garrett, Governor Lew Wallace, and Albert Bacon Fall all figured prominently in the history of the area. Population–1222. Elevation–5438 ft.
New Mexico was the birthplace of several famous figures in American history, including the outlaw Billy the Kid, the physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer, and the astronaut Harrison Schmitt, who was one of the last men to walk on the moon.