Gordon Wimsatt and His Famous Bear Grease
By Pat Rand G. Gordon Wimsatt, who was born on September 6th, 1915, came to the Sacramento Mountains with his parents, George and Johnnie Wimsatt, from Santa Rita, NM, in […]
By Pat Rand G. Gordon Wimsatt, who was born on September 6th, 1915, came to the Sacramento Mountains with his parents, George and Johnnie Wimsatt, from Santa Rita, NM, in […]
By Pat Rand (Author’s Note: Material for this article came from the archives of the Sacramento Mountains Historical Museum and interviews with Bill Dees, Phil Fuller, and Mark Hare.) With […]
by Arlan Ponder The Lodge The original Cloudcroft Lodge was built in 1899 with the billing that it would become “one of the greatest summer resorts in the West.” The […]
Lodging is a major part of the success of Cloudcroft and thanks to four establishments that have been here for almost a century the success doesn’t appear to be stopping […]
By Pat Rand (Editor’s Note: This is the first installment of the story about the Eddy brothers, John Arthur and Charles Bishop, who brought the railroad to Cloudcroft, and also […]