‘Hanging trees’ mostly myth, says former NM state historian who researched frontier justiceALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — New Mexico abounds with macabre tales about “hanging trees” where Wild West miscreants were strung up in the days of frontier justice — but as former state historian Robert Torrez discovered, there’s more myth than truth in many of the stories. |
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