Originally Posted by Dirtfarmer
While the Col. was stationed at Ft. Bliss, the Major moved from OK to be near the family.

During those years, he did a lot of desert quail hunting in SE NM, near Bliss. Photos of him holding quail along with his 1933 Superposed are in several books, maybe also in Unrepentant Sinner.

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Charles wrote that he hunted blue quail on the Cox ranch. Which is by the Organ Mountains. To get to the ranch you had to drive over St. Augustines pass.

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This is a pic of part of the Organ Mts,where the pole is pointing is St. Augustines pass (more or less),the other side of the Organ Mts. is the Cox ranch and White Sands Missile Range. White Sands is where he hunted blue quail before the military took it.

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