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Article: The New Mexico Las Vegas Sports Historic Hotel chock-full of Old West Legend. (Plaza Hotel in Las Vegas, New Mexico)
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- March 9, 1988
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THE NEW MEXICO LAS VEGAS SPORTS HISTORIC HOTEL
CHOCK-FULL OF OLD WEST LEGENDTEL
LAS VEGAS, N.M., March 9 /PRNewswire/ -- Tom Mix stayed there. So did Doc Holiday, his moll Big Nose Kate, Black Jack Ketchum and assorted members of the Hole-in-the-Wall Gang.
The place is the Plaza Hotel in Las Vegas -- only 64 miles east of Santa Fe. Built in 1882, the Plaza, with its Victorian brick-and-column three-story facade, was a hub in this historic city nestled where the Great Plains meets the Rockies.
When the Plaza Hotel opened its doors, Las Vegas was in its heyday. The town boomed in the 1880s when Atchison, Topeka and ...