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Columbus, New Mexico

Everything Columbus is known for

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Music in Columbus

Songs About Columbus

Tonight We Ride
Paul Eason
52%
"The people of Columbus still hear him riding through their dreams"
Tonight We Ride
Tom Russell
49%
"The people of Columbus still hear him riding through their dreams"
Pancho Villa
Billy Walker
8%
"He rode into town one evening the streets began too clear The word was passed in whisper the bandit Pancho Villa's here"
Tequila Sheila
Bobby Bare
8%
"I feel like old Pancho Villa, Sheila"
pancho villa
rich o'toole
5%
"TITLE: pancho villa"
Migra
Santana
3%
"Migra, Migra"
Gallo del Cielo
Joe Ely
2%
"Then I'll return to buy the land Pancho Villa stole from father long ago"

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Rivers & Roads in Song near Columbus

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Things to Do in Columbus

Everything Near Columbus

4 stories, landmarks & places within ~20 miles — the same local lore RoadyGoat plays as you drive through.

  • Pancho Villa Columbus Raid Site · 0.3 mi · Things to Do

    March 9 1916: 500 raiders attacked this border town -- the last invasion of the continental US.

  • Camp Furlong and Pancho Villa State Park · 0.3 mi · Things to Do

    Pershing launched 10000 troops from here into Mexico. The Punitive Expedition never caught Villa.

  • Village of Columbus and Camp Furlong · 0.7 mi · Scraped Hmdb

    Imagine waking to gunfire and chaos – that’s exactly what happened in Columbus, New Mexico in 1916 when Pancho Villa and his men raided the town. Villa's forces, numbering in the hundreds, crossed the border and…

  • Florida Mountains · 18.7 mi · Things to Do

    BLM wilderness study area with desert bighorn sheep and 800-year-old archaeological sites.

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