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By Gary Cozzens

In early might 1950 a big wooded area fireplace unfold during the Capitan hole within the Capitan Mountains. a tender black endure cub used to be discovered clinging to a tree together with his paws singed and his mom nowhere in sight. That cub, later named Smokey endure, was once doctored and finally despatched to Washington, D. C. the place he turned the residing image of fireplace prevention. certainly, Smokey undergo is the main recognized resident of Capitan, NM, yet he's not the only background of the world. as well as a accomplished bankruptcy on Smokey undergo, Cozzens's historical past of Capitan will hide every thing from the numerous coal mining and ranching heritage of the world (Block Ranch was once the most important within the kingdom on the flip of the century), US woodland Service's involvement within the region, Civilian Conservation Corps background (one of the few CCC camps for girls was once positioned here), and the tale of 1 of Capitan's most famed, yet now not so well-covered, electorate, George A. Titsworth.

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