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Pages past, Aug. 4: The galloping ghosts of NM

On this date …

1971: New Mexico tax collectors were on the lookout for more than 50,000 galloping ghosts.

The state had recorded about 24,000 horses in compiling its annual property tax on livestock. But the State Livestock Board was reporting it had...

 
 
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