A Place in the Sun

It was around 1960 when Dave Sheehan, then a young U.S. Air Force lieutenant flying a hot F-100 on a low-level practice mission out of what was then Clovis AFB in New Mexico, first spotted it. "I flew down the Pecos River and saw this little valley, and it was so green and so beautiful that I pulled...

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