The Rayado Program was once known as the Kit Carson Program.

The Kit Carson Museum is a living museum that operates in the summer in Rayado, located south of Philmont's headquarters.

The museum also features exhibits about frontiersmen Kit Carson and Lucien Maxwell who founded a colony at Rayado.

* Museums at Philmont Villa Philmont, Seton Memorial Library and Philmont Museum, Kit Carson Museum at Rayado

The Rayado program is a select, strenuous twenty-day backpacking program designed for experienced Scouts.

The Rayado chief, Caratax, was freed by a raid on the Spanish and Oñate freed several women captives, but he retained several boys at the request of the Spanish priests so that they could be instructed in the Catholic faith.

Rayado crews are accompanied by two rangers and experience a number of challenges geared toward developing personal growth, a sense of stewardship for the environment, and leadership skills.

Rayado participants are challenged physically, mentally, and spiritually as they hike Philmont's most challenging trails, visit parts of the backcountry that are never seen by regular trek participants, and take part in activities that are not available to other Scouts.

Rayado scholarships, presented by the Philmont Staff Association, are annually awarded to deserving campers who wish to take part in the Rayado program.

Rayado crews are put together by Philmont staff and consist of people from different parts of the country.

One of the most prominent ranchers was Jesus Gil Abreu, who ran the Abreu Rayado Ranch from the 1870s to his death in 1901.

Most authorities believe his route led down the Canadian River from Texas to Oklahoma, cross-country to the Salt Fork, where he found the Escanjaque encampment, and then to the Arkansas River and its tributary, the Walnut River at Arkansas City, Kansas where the Rayado settlement was located.

A minority view would be that the Escanjaque encampment was on the Ninnescah River and the Rayado village was on the site of present day Wichita, Kansas.

Operating from the Rayado Settlement, he raised cattle, goats, and sheep and grew crops.

A Rayado Trek encourages personal growth, teamwork, and leadership ability.

During 2012, two Rayado programs are scheduled.

Scholarships generally cover the full cost of the Rayado Program, but a number of smaller partial scholarships are also available and all Rayado participants are encouraged to apply.

A person may only be a Rayado participant once ; a ranger may only be assigned to a Rayado crew once ; and staff members are disqualified from participation in Rayado treks except as rangers.

The Rayado village was probably on the Walnut River near Arkansas City, Kansas.

Image: Old Colfax County Courthouse sign, Springer, NM IMG_0542. JPG |< center > Old Colfax County Courthouse Museum in Springer </ center >

Image: Ten Commandments monument in Springer, NM IMG 0544. JPG |< center > The Ten Commandments are displayed in front of the Colfax County Museum .</ center >

File: Wayne_gaussoin_performance. jpg | Performance art by Wayne Gaussoin ( Picuris Peublo ), Museum of Contemporary Native Art, Santa Fe, NM, 2009

Santa Fe, NM: Museum of New Mexico Press, 1995.

The Akron Art Museum ( Akron, OH ), the Arizona State University Art Museum ( Tempe, AZ ), the Chrysler Museum of Art ( Norfolk, VA ), the Jack S Blanton Museum of Art ( University of Texas, Austin, TX ), the Honolulu Museum of Art, the Montana Historical Society ( Helena, MT ), the Museum of New Mexico ( Santa Fe, NM ), the National Gallery of Art ( Washington, DC ), the Neuberger Museum of Art ( Purchase, NY ), the Oakland Museum of California ( Oakland, CA ), the Phoenix Art Museum, the Roswell Museum and Art Center ( Roswell, NM ), the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Smithsonian American Art Museum ( Washington, DC ), the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art ( Kansas City ), the University of Arizona Museum of Art ( Tucson, AZ ), and the Whitney Museum of American Art ( New York City ) are among the public collections holding work by Milton Resnick.

The nautical mile ( symbol M, NM or nmi ) is a unit of length that is about one minute of arc of latitude measured along any meridian, or about one minute of arc of longitude at the equator.

The preferred abbreviation of the International Civil Aviation Organization is NM.

If MN = NM, then MN is also positive definite.

Nemaha County ( standard abbreviation: NM ) is a county located in the northeastern part of the U. S. state of Kansas.

Sugarite Canyon State Park is located NE of Raton, NM.

Image: Former courthouse in Springer, NM IMG_0543. JPG |< center > The former Colfax County Courthouse is now a regional museum.

The village is located just off Interstate 25 about 40 miles northwest of Las Cruces, NM and approximately 80 miles northwest of El Paso, TX.

The Gila Cliff Dwellings National Monument is about north of Silver City, via NM 15.

Lake Roberts is lake about north of Silver City on NM 15 near the NM 35 junction.

The City of Rocks is located off NM 61.

The Kneeling Nun is a natural rock formation located about to the east of Silver City along NM 152.

The village is near the junction of U. S. Highway 550 and NM Highway 4, at the south end of the Jemez Valley.

The highway coming from Cuba, NM is Highway 197 and passes through Torreon.

Torreon Chapter House is located 26 miles SW of Cuba, NM on NM Highway 197.

It is also 67 miles NE of Crownpoint, NM.

The city is served by the Truth or Consequences Municipal Airport, Interstate 25, I-25 Business, New Mexico State Road 51 ( NM 51 ), NM 181 and NM 187

Torreon is located on NM State Route 55 on the eastern slopes of the Manzano Mountains at.

in Doña Ana County, NM, is the largest community of New Mexico in the Gadsden Purchase.

Today, Sandia National Laboratories ( SNL ) is managed and operated by Sandia Corporation, a wholly owned subsidiary of Lockheed Martin Corporation, and includes government-owned facilities in Albuquerque, New Mexico ( SNL / NM ); Livermore, California ( SNL / CA ); Tonopah, Nevada ; and Kauai, Hawaii.