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Chronicling the people, places, and quiet feuds of New Mexico — one story at a time. From the Pueblo Revolt to Pancho Villa, from crypto-Jewish hill villages to the secret city on the mesa.
We're not historians by trade — we're New Mexicans by birth and by stubbornness. Every episode pairs a front-porch conversation with a deep dive into the primary sources, the diaries, and the people who still remember. No saguaros. No tourist gloss. Just the Land of Enchantment, told true.
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All calculations based on our experiences elsewhere
fail in New Mexico.
Sometimes when we can and feel like it: a new episode, a field dispatch, and one good photograph from the road.
Twenty-four episodes and counting. Filter by series below, or start from the bottom and work your way up like a good Saturday-morning archive dive.
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The editorial companion to the podcast — essays, source write-ups, and notes from the road. Published sometimes when we can and feel like it, alongside the episodes. Subscribe below to get them in your inbox.
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Read the dispatch {Icon.arrow(10)}The Enchantment Chronicles began over a long afternoon at a kitchen table in the South Valley, arguing about whether the Lincoln County War was really about Billy the Kid or about a corrupt federal beef contract. (It was the beef contract.) We agreed that night that someone ought to tell these stories the way New Mexicans actually tell them — with patience, with primary sources, and without the gloss that the rest of the country tends to put on the Southwest.
We are not historians by trade. We are sons and daughters of this state — by birth, by marriage, by stubbornness — and we believe the best history is the kind that gets walked, not just read. Every episode begins on the ground: a drive to Glorieta Pass, a winter morning in Lincoln, a long conversation in a kitchen in Truchas.
Men of Enchantment is the umbrella for everything we make — the podcast, the dispatches, and, soon, a small book series. We're based in Albuquerque. We answer email slowly. We do not own a saguaro.
New Mexican by way of the long road. Keeps the bibliographies and the field notebooks.
Drives the truck, runs the microphones, asks the questions the historians forgot to.
"To tell the story of New Mexico the way New Mexicans tell it themselves — slowly, accurately, and with a deep respect for the ground."
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