Thursday, May 10, 2012 - Ute Lake State Park, Logan NM
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Camped at Ute Lake State Park, Logan NM, May 10, 2012
Night camp
Dry Camped - Ute Lake State Park, Logan NM
- Verizon cell phone and broadband service - weak signal and not useable during my stay.
- Go to Ute Lake State Park website
- Locate Ute Lake State Park on my Night Camps map
- Check the weather here
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. ...