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  1. AHC: Make Albuquerque Grow Like Other Sun Belt Cities/New Mexico Wank

    Despite New Mexico's abundance of beautiful scenery, sunshine, history, and cultural wealth it has never really exploded in growth like its neighboring states. Although the Albuquerque Metro Area experienced decent growth rates throughout the postwar era, it still lags behind the absolutely...
  2. AHC: Make a TL like The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly historically plausible

    I'm a big fan of westerns like The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly. Even if it his historically inaccurate. So I'd like to create a challenge to make an ATL in which the events shown in the film would be more plausible. The major inaccuracy is how the Civil War is portrayed in the film. The plot...
  3. Effects of New Mexico been a slave state

    Doing a research i read in wikipedia that ''As one of the final attempts at compromise to avoid the Civil War, in December 1860, a U.S. House of Representatives committee proposed to admit New Mexico as a slave state immediately. Although the measure was approved by the committee on December 29...
  4. Duke Andrew of Dank

    DBWI: The Rio Grande abandons its narrow gauge

    As well all know, the D&RGW considered abandoning its iconic narrow gauge in the 1930s. However, wartime bough it a new lease of life. Then soon after the natural gas boom in northern New Mexico and southern Colorado led to the line's upgrading, and its potential as a tourist railroad being...
  5. DBWI: Billy the Kid shot dead in Fort Sumner

    In the 14th of July 1881, in one of the most dramatic episodes of the American Wild West, recently escaped William H. Bonney alias Billy the Kid is staying in his friend's house at Fort Sumner when the sheriff of Lincoln County Pat Garrett arrived with a warrant of his arrest. Upon entering a...
  6. AH Question: Why did no distinctive U.S. variety of Italian develop?

    The United States is home to distinctive varieties of French, German, and Spanish spoken nowhere else in the world. In the past, a distinctive variety of Dutch was also spoken in the country. But why, in the nineteenth century or before, didn't a distinct variety of American Italian develop...
  7. Duke Andrew of Dank

    AHC: Save the Rio Grande Narrow Gauge

    Simply put, have a way to allow the Denver & Rio Grande Western railroad's narrow gauge survive to a greater extent. As IOTL, only the Cumbres & Toltec (which I loved riding on) and the Durango & Silverton are left. However, the idea here is to try to let the Rio Grande narrow gauge continue to...
  8. WI: Mexico sold California and New Mexico to the US (in 1845)?

    So, prior to the Mexican-American War, President Polk sent John Slidell to Mexico (on November 10, 1845), in order to offer money to buy the Mexican territories of Nuevo Mexico and Alta California. 5 Million for Nuevo Mexico and 40 Million for Alta California. Slidell was dismissed by the...
  9. GauchoBadger

    How does the lack of a Gadsden Purchase affect the ACW?

    So, suppose that either the US government is uninterested in the purchase of more territory in the southern border or that the mexican government is more reluctant to give up even more territory to the gringos. How does such a lack of a proper connection between southern Arizona and southern...
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