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At Acoma pueblo thousands of cattle and even a few residents are still stranded by deep snow. The pueblo continues to dig out from last week's blizzards. Most of the 3,000 cattle on the Acoma pueblo have been isolated since the storms last week with no extra feed or access to unfrozen water. Ranch hands have not been able to get out there as the extreme cold of the high country keeps the deep snow from melting. Tractor crews are attacking it, but there are miles to go. Not only is access important for care of the livestock, but many...

David Bowser for The New York Times The sculptor John Sherrill Houser standing beside the head of the horse that the explorer Don Juan de Oñate will ride in a monument planned for El Paso. Some historians dispute savageries attributed to Oñate. SANTA FE, N.M. — Four hundred years after he colonized what is now New Mexico for Spain, Don Juan de Oñate (half of him, anyway) lies here with scattered pieces of his horse as if dismembered on a battlefield of titans. But by the end of next year, if all goes according to plan, this helmeted giant will...