I spend some mornings at a wonderful coffee shop telling stories. Most of the stories might be true. It is lovely to drink coffee and laugh with friends. Without water we wouldn’t have coffee nor green chile. I love the Rio Grande. Today’s podcast has a little of this and that stories. When you hear people talking about how the West was won, it was not with guns, though they were important. Rather, it was very precise technology that tamed the West, and that technology is still in use. For hundreds of years the vast wild lands of New Mexico had plenty of lizards, snakes, deer, rabbits and coyotes but nothing that could be shipped somewhere else for money. What could use the land commercially were cattle and sheep. Then came two inventions: windmills and barbed wire. Oh, yes, and railroads so when going to market the cows didn’t walk off their pounds or take twenty cowboys a month to get there. What made the difference in ranching was only a hundred or so feet of dirt away from the thirsty cows, sheep and people. That first great invention was windmills.

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