Bird's eye view of Mountainair

Caption on image reads "Birds eye view of Mt air." A postmark is barely visible on the image and may read either "1911" or "1917". Image shows a cityscape of a town, with a multi-story white building rising above the rest of the buildings. Two wagons are visible on what appears to be a platform in the foreground. Archived at the New Mexico State University Library, digitized version published online.

That was then, this is now. Reflections on EVEDA and the marketing power of myth lead me back to this image and a handful of articles about the urban to rural trend in contemporary re-settlement of the rural west, even to the urban studies work of Mike Davis, exurbs and such. I have more posts with links, posted before catching the tagging habit, but can't find them now. I'll keep looking.