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Quiet frontier recluse Frenchy of Dog Canyon remembered
The article profiles Francois Jean Rochas known as Frenchy born 1843 in France who settled in Dog Canyon near Alamogordo in the 1880s. He raised cattle and built irrigation with Oliver Lee, faced danger from rivals, and died 1884 in his cabin likely by murder or suicide. Oliver Lee links to Lincoln County conflicts and the Fountain murders of 1896.
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White Sands National Monument
Francois-Jean Rochas
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New Mexico
Sacramentos
Tularosa
Southwest
San Augustin Pass
Tularosa Sands
Little Dog Canyon
Oliver Milton Lee
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Buffalo Gap
Abilene
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New Mexico Territory
Perry Altman
Oliver
Sacramento Mountains
Lincoln County
A.J. Fountain
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Tularosa Valley
Pat Garrett
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