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Saturday, February 7, 2009 - Rockhound State Park, Deming NM

Scaled quail next door, Rockhound State Park, Deming, New Mexico, February 7, 2009
Scaled quail next door, Rockhound State Park, Deming, New Mexico, February 7, 2009

This is a popular park. There are still more campers than sites with a few folks waiting in the group site for a site with hookups to open up.

Night camp

Site 27 - Rockhound State Park, Deming NM

Sell Them Down the River

Brown had in his camp a fine-looking Negro, who said he had run away from his master in Platte County, Missouri, because the man was going to sell him and his wife to a dealer who would take them south to the Louisiana sugar plantations. The average Missouri Negro looked upon being sold south as one or two degrees worse than being sent straight to hell. This viewpoint was fostered by the masters, who always threatened, when things went wrong, to sell them down the river. ...

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