For a while Silver was growing with lots of transplants mainly from the Northeast, California, and the Northwest. I think the population is dwindling now. If your half brother or his ex had anything to do with politics here I prolly know them.
No, but that part of my family moved to New Mexico in the early 1970s.
It turns out that we are an old New Mexico family connected to Kit Carson, owning ranches and stores although I didn’t know this stuff until the last 15 years, I didn’t know that my father and mother had both lived there and met there, although neither were born there.
Before he went into the Navy in 1939, my dad had cowboyed some and herded horses in New Mexico/Arizona as a teen, my mother’s family had followed the crop picking, and then became sharecroppers (See the wonderful movie, “The Southerner”) in new Mexico).