To create this book, we have extracted the best and the brightest pages directly from GALLINAS Magazine, complete with local ads, 3am typos, and all the heart and soul of the original publication. The book is roughly divided into the same sections that the magazine was, although the stories are so far reaching, that most defy categorization. People, culture, history, food, landscape, laughter can be found pretty much everywhere in the pages that follow. You will read about some of the secret gems of Northeastern New Mexico, both past and present. You will get a feel for the souls that live in this strange land where the mountains meet the plains. For generations everyone and everything from Native Americans, barbed wire fences, Hispanic settlers, hot springs, Jewish traders, pinon trees, railroad moguls, ladybugs, the virgin of Guadalupe, adobe bricks, United States Calvary, acequias, Charles Lindbergh, the internet, Teddy Roosevelt, the Catholic church, Hollywood directors, annual monsoons, Curanderas, longhorn cattle and itinerant saints have left their mark on our inner and outer landscapes."