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The minimart had been in Charlotte Sanders" family for generations, going back to the summer of 1893, when old Casey Sanders rode his horse-drawn wagon into town. If that wasn"t enough, Charlotte was Apache from her maternal side, and the Apache had arrived in what is now Ruidoso, long before Casey Sanders.
The tinkling of the doorbell announced customers. Charlotte looked up from her crossword. Two men with slit-like eyes, olive pockmarked complexions, sporting walrus moustaches entered.
With its recent "discovery" among vacationers, the sleepy resort village of Ruidoso, in the southern Rockies in New Mexico, was attracting attention from developers and entrepreneurs… including some who envisioned a booming business of ill-repute. The Ruidoso council
