In 1953 I visited Columbus and spent a couple of weeks staying with my Grandparents who lived in the Section Foreman’s house on the Southern Pacific. In the evenings my granddad and I would sit on the front porch and smoke our pipes...his filled with tobacco and mine with coffee grounds. They retired to Deming and when passed left me enough money to go to college.
Interestingly, the site of Camp Furlong, the military base which Villa’s raiders attacked, is named for the perpetrator of the raid—Pancho Villa State Park.