White Oaks: Ghost Towns of Southeastern New Mexico, an ENMU student produced video.

This is a really well done student (ENMU) production "Ghost Towns of Southeastern New Mexico" which featured this section on White Oaks, New Mexico. Because of size restrictions on youtube uploads, we have had to edit it down a bit from it's original 25 minutes, which is a shame because it is really well done. Though over a decade old (history doesn't change that much), the players in this video still reside in the area except for Robert Leslie who passed several years ago. For more information on White Oaks go to http://www.whiteoaksnewmexico.com or http://www.museumsoflincoln.com This was probably done in the late 1990's. There's not date on the video.

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Travel & Events

Tags:

• White Oaks
• New Mexico
• Ghost Towns of the West
• Ghost Towns of New Mexico
• Pat Cooper
• Larue Wetzel
• Robert Leslie

[bradcooper1120]

The ENMU film students really did a great job. As a photojournalist, I'd have given them an A+. I couldn't read all of their names on the credit, or I would have listed every one of them.

[Theliberalssuck1]

I know a family who own a home in White Oaks passed down to them by their Grandfather who built it. My friend's Father attended School in White Oaks. When I was a kid in the early 1970's I stayed at the home with my friend serveral times a year.

In this film the saloon owner claims that the "No Scum Allowed" sign came about because of the Young Guns movie. Not true. That sign was hanging on that building when I was a kid in the early 1970's, long before Young Guns was filmed.

[azne69]

Excellent Video, Thanks for sharing the life & times of White Oaks, NM.