Circles of Stones - The Pinos Altos Cemetery

Wandering through the old cemetery, Jody noticed the circles of stones the most.

Everywhere she looked, everywhere she stepped were these circular reminders of all the people who had been left here over the past one hundred years.

This book was Jody's personal journey to somehow preserve the names and memories of all the precious souls who had lived and died and been buried in Pinos Altos.

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in Pinos Altos, once upon a time

This little book is not meant to be a definitive history of Pinos Altos. By using actual newspaper articles, Jody hoped to show what was considered noteworthy in a rough and tumble mining town when men worked hard, drank hard, and killed rather than apologized.

The vignettes she authored are based on stories told to her by descendants of early settlers and are meant to give a glimpse into the lives of people who did not make newspaper headlines but rather were the good, solid citizens who were the foundations on which the town was built.

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Ghosts of Pinos Altos

Believing that there were spirits left behind from among the several thousand people who had once filled this old mining town, Jody began talking with the men and women who had moved into the old houses in the 1970s - they hemmed and hawed and said to call someone else.

Fortunately, a few older persons who had grown up in Pinos Altos and heard "ghost stories" when they were small, weren't at all reluctant to re-tell them.

This book is a compilation of these "ghost stories."

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Spirits Dancing

As a work of fiction about a murder in a ghost town a hundred years ago, this historical novalette captures your spirit and imagination.

A shot rings out. A young Apache woman reaches out to steady herself against a tree - then continues running deeper into the woods. But that was a hundred years ago. Why am I seeing it today? And what am I supposed to do about it?

"We'll show you," whisper the spirits.

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Cross Mountain

Cross Mountain - Marks Place of Peace - On a high mountain peak overlooking Pinos Altos is a tall white cross that keeps solitary vigil in the same spot Santiago Brito placed the first - a big wooden cross - as a sign of peace between settlers and the nearby Apaches. It is believed that this first cross was covered with tin so the sun and moonlight would keep it always visible.

This article written by Jody gives the history of the cross on top of the mountain overlooking Pinos Altos. The article appeared in New Mexico Magazine in May 2001.