
The St. James Hotel, Cimarron, New Mexico. First built in 1872, many infamous outlaws have stayed at the St. James over the years. Courtesy St. James Hotel
A “punch in the gut” and great public outcry may well have saved the historic St. James Hotel in Cimarron, New Mexico. After it was announced last September that the hotel would be closing, its Facebook page received hundreds of comments from disappointed fans and historians. Newspaper articles were written. Glaring headlines of its closure caused people’s hearts to sink. This could not be…the elegant, historic hotel—with wonderful images, 1880s furnishings, ambiance and a ghost or two as well as a unique history including outlaws, rough ranchers and other rogues who rode the West and later faded into that exciting and violent past—would be no more.
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