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Archer in his Ford, New Mexico

Photographer: William H. Roberts Date: circa 1915-1925 Negative Number 149937

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Automobile accident near Lamy, New Mexico Date: 1925 Photographer: William H. Roberts Negative Number 163143

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#postcard pogphotoarchives:Automobiles in Rio Grande canyon near Woody’s... http://dlvr.it/QKWLdg

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#postcard pogphotoarchives:Couple posing in front of automobile, New... http://dlvr.it/Q50r1r

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Automobile on road to Enchanted Mesa [Mesa Encantada] near Acoma Pueblo, New Mexico  Photographer: Frank Shoemaker Date: 1926 Negative Number LS.2094

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Pre-license automobile SF49 stopped on road in rocky area (perhaps La Bajada switchback?) Photographer: Adolph Fischer  Date: circa 1910? Negative Number 012936

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The first Otomouvie in Santa Fe, Santa Fe to California, on Water Street, Santa Fe, New Mexico Photographer: J.E. Quatsoe Date: 1905 Negative Number 011396 I couldn't easily find a news item for this event, but I did find a record of another long automobile trip going the other direction, from California through Santa Fe. These news clips are from Albuquerque that year: DARING MOTORISTS TO CROSS THE DESERT WILL ARRIVE HERE THIS MONTH ON REMARKABLE JOURNEY

About Wednesday, December 20 [1905], two daring automobilists in a sixteen-horse power touring car are due to reach Albuquerque, on one of the most remarkable "devil wagon" trips ever undertaken. The eyes of the entire motoring world will be fixed on these two men and their machine as they leave Los Angeles, cross the great American desert and the huge uplift of the Continental divide, and spin on clear across the continent to New York. Experts have declared it impossible for an automobile to cross the sandy wastes of California, Arizona and New Mexico, but these bold chauffeurs are determined to show the experts a thing or two. Their arrival in Albuquerque will be awaited with interest. The automobile is the Reo Mountaineer of New York city, and the men are Percy F. Megargel, of the Buffalo Automobile club and American Motor League, and David F. Fassett, an expert mechanic from the Reo factory at Lansing, Mich. Megargel has twice driven an automobile across the continent, and has equipped the Reo car with every appliance that two years of almost continuous touring through unknown regions has suggested. Both he and Fassett are men accustomed to roughing it, and perfectly fearless. Will they succeed? is the question asked by every automobilist who reads the automobile publications and has followed the adventures of the Reo Mountaineer on its trip from New York to Los Angeles. If they fall to conquer the desert, they will have done what numerous others have; if they succeed they will demonstrate that the auto can go where even the horse cannot follow. The car that will be used on this hazardous undertaking is the same stock Reo that left New York city last August, bringing the two men and their seven hundred pounds of baggage across the states of New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Iowa, Nebraska, Wyoming, Idaho, Oregon and California. It has run in all something like 7,000 miles, but an examination of the engine and running gear shows that it is still good for the several thousand miles of sandy desert, snow-clad mountain and lava roads that separate Los Angeles from the New York metropolis.

LOST IN THE SNOW

Chicago, Dec. 19 [1905]. A dispatch from Flagstaff. Ariz., says that two transcontinental automobiles carrying Perry F. Megargee, of New York, and David F. Fassett, of Lansing, Mich., are lost in the deep snow in the mountains west of here, and the automobilists have not been heard of since last Friday, when they left Williams for Flagstaff. A relief expedition with food, blankets and shovels started yesterday in the midst of a blinding snow storm. Other parties are hunting for other men lost in the mountains. 

AUTOMOBILE CRANKS GET INTO THE QUICKSANDS

Gallup, N. M., Jan. 12 [1906]. The automobile driven by Percy Megargle and David Fassett, is in the quicksands near Aztec, Ariz. After being warned to keep away from the Rio Puerco ford, the tourists attempted to cross on the frozen ground. The crust broke and the automobile sank. The men finally got to solid ground, but the car sank to the headlights. It has not yet been pulled out.