Points of Interest:
1). In the story, Foiled, I created Kate and Billy's neighborhood from the Sandia Army Base (Albuquerque) family housing area of Zia Park where I once lived as a kid. Little did I know the military stored nuclear bombs on base in the nearby mountains.
2). Kate found refuge in Las Vegas, the largest town in New Mexico during the late 1800s. Though not as famous as Dodge City, Deadwood, or Tombstone; locals claimed Las Vegas had been the worst of the worst of the Old West. Notorious outlaws such as Doc Holliday, Jesse James, and Billy the Kid frequented it. Las Vegas provided 21 Rough Riders to Teddy Roosevelt, most whom was at his side during his famed charge up San Juan Hill.
3). During WWII, a Nazi POW camp was built about ten miles south of Roswell at an old orchard park. The camp could house up to 4800 prisoners who were mostly from the North African campaign.
4). Like Kate’s father, Henry John “Dutch” Deutshendorf was also stationed at Roswell Army Air Field as a pilot in the early 1940s. His son, John Jr. was born in Roswell eight years after Kate and is known better as the famous singer-song writer “John Denver.”
5). Kate’s father was a pilot in the 509th Bomber group who were the ones that dropped the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki Japan in August 1945, two years before the story begins. It was the first and only time weapons of mass destruction have been used in anger. After the war, the squadron was reassigned to Roswell Army Air Field for several years later.
2). Kate found refuge in Las Vegas, the largest town in New Mexico during the late 1800s. Though not as famous as Dodge City, Deadwood, or Tombstone; locals claimed Las Vegas had been the worst of the worst of the Old West. Notorious outlaws such as Doc Holliday, Jesse James, and Billy the Kid frequented it. Las Vegas provided 21 Rough Riders to Teddy Roosevelt, most whom was at his side during his famed charge up San Juan Hill.
3). During WWII, a Nazi POW camp was built about ten miles south of Roswell at an old orchard park. The camp could house up to 4800 prisoners who were mostly from the North African campaign.
4). Like Kate’s father, Henry John “Dutch” Deutshendorf was also stationed at Roswell Army Air Field as a pilot in the early 1940s. His son, John Jr. was born in Roswell eight years after Kate and is known better as the famous singer-song writer “John Denver.”
5). Kate’s father was a pilot in the 509th Bomber group who were the ones that dropped the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki Japan in August 1945, two years before the story begins. It was the first and only time weapons of mass destruction have been used in anger. After the war, the squadron was reassigned to Roswell Army Air Field for several years later.
