White Sands National Monument
George Grant photographed at White Sands in 1934, 1936 and 1940. During his 1934 visit he made photographs of two men that had been involved with Billy the Kid in the Lincoln County War in 1878. He also photographed the White Sands visitor center constructed by the CCC.
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Uncle George W. Coe of Glencoe, New Mexico, showing his missing trigger finger on his right hand. He lost the finger in the 1878 Blazer's Mill gunfight in which Dick Brewer and Andrew L. "Buckshot" Roberts were killed. Photograph taken November 9, 1934 at White Sands National Monument, Alamogordo, New Mexico by National Park Service photographer George A. Grant; Negative Number Wa. 46c.
