Odious and Peculiar
Philology and esoterica: scribblings, ravings and mutterings.
Sunday, February 07, 2010
The strange journey of a portrait of Napoleon through New Mexico
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Acquired by a Confederate major retreating from Glorieta Pass
Abandoned in the remote San Mateo Mountains
Found by a sheepherder, mistaken for the Archangel Michael, displayed in a Socorro church
Taken by a newspaper man to Texas and vanished
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