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FAMED WRITER'S RANCH DILAPIDATED D.H. LAWRENCE PROPERTY POORLY MAINTAINED.(News/National/International)

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From: Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO)
Date: 19980313
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Byline: Rebecca Rolwing Associated Press

SAN CRISTOBAL, N.M. -- Wind whispers through the pinon trees that dot the 160-acre mountaintop ranch that inspired writer D.H. Lawrence during a New Mexico sojourn more than 70 years ago.

The breathtaking views of the desert plains also captivated painter Georgia O'Keeffe, who liked to lie on a bench at the ranch near Taos and stare at the trees.

Yet the property where Lawrence wrote St. Mawr, given to the University of New Mexico with the promise that it be forever maintained, is deteriorating and the mausoleum that ...

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