This is a picture of one of the buttes on the ranch. Potsherds can be found at the base of it and stretching downslope to a wash that is littered with them. Potsherds, stone implements (arrowheads, "axes" and more) have been found about over about a square mile on the ranch property, if not further.

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Here is a picture of what the potsherds are like that are scattered all over the ground on the property. I've counted at least 5 different main types of pottery there from corrugated to polychrome with a high variety of patterns in black on white variations as well as around 4 different clays being used to make the pottery. This picture shows about a 3x3 feet area. Imagine this times 1000 or more and that's the ranch.

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To give a better idea of the scale of the area where things are found, this picture is taken near the base of the butte in the above picture. The potsherds and other artifacts stretch all the way to the reddish canyon that you can see in the distance and about twice the distance facing the other direction.

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These are some curious mounds on the property. There is nothing else quite like them in the vicinity and they stick out on the landscape like a sore thumb. No clue what they are and nobody has gone digging in them, just in case they are burial mounds (strict taboos about that one).

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Here's a picture of my husband's grandmother, feeding one of her "pet lambs". Sometimes lambs are born and their mothers don't take care of them. These lambs become pet lambs because they are bottlefed. They're pretty cute. My mother in law, daughter and son are also in the picture.

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To give you an idea how isolated it is out there, here's a picture of the front butte at sunset taken from the main home on the property. The stars at night there are incredible.

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Hope you all enjoyed the pictures. Some interesting family stories that go along with the property. A cousin of my husband and her caucasian husband lived out there for a bit and he used to go sheepherding. Shortly before they moved away, he found some conquistador armor on one of the buttes as well as rock graves. A couple of my husband's uncles have looked for the spot but it hasn't been relocated. There is zero doubt, however, that the conquistadors were there. The man brought back a trinket with him to prove it.

Stephanie



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