1953 Mercury M-350. North Dakota.

We've posted other Canadian Mercury trucks on AL, including a Mercury M-3 in Nova Scotia. 

This is a Saskatchewn truck for sale in Pembina, North Dakota. It's on eBay. Details at B-A-T. 

Saskatchewan Roughriders: Ford F150 Field Hand

from Alex Emond, in southern Saskatchewan: "Here's a warrior of a truck, down in Val Marie. It is set up as a bale picker...one big round bale at a time. Hard to imagine that it was ever new. Cheers--AE"

Peugeot MK truck, 1930s

It's been too long since we posted a Peugeot. Craig Manning spotted this one in Paris, on the Ile St-Louis.

1992 Dodge. Marathon, Texas

Erik Baier photograph. And that's Mara-thun.

1964 Chevrolet K10. Salida, Colorado

 

'51 Ford Tudor: the noir car from David Taylor.

David Taylor saw the car in Austin. Nice custom job, very clean. This era Ford does turn up in a lot of noir films--and didn't Robert Mitchum drive one in Thunder Road? BTW, David Taylor's new noir novel Night Work is just out, to acclaim:

PUBLISHERS WEEKLY:  Taylor’s masterly command of historical detail and his powerful delineations of characters both real and fictional should help put this second novel, like his first, into contention for an Edgar Award. 

BOOKLIST: Building to a slam-bang finale involving an assassination attempt, $500,000 in purloined Mob money, and cameos from Meyer Lansky and other marquee mobsters, the novel sails smoothly forward, nicely combining romance, historical detail, and, yes, that delightfully gin-soaked atmosphere.

1962 Studebaker Lark

 

International Harvester L-110. Salida, Colorado.

It was sunny in Salida but there was weather coming. A snowstorm was blowing around the front range and it caught me in South Park going across the Pass and down into Colorado Springs.

  

1947 F-6 Ford 1 1/2 Ton. South Royalton, Vermont.

from Erik Baier in VT.

1956 Thunderbird, San Mateo California

from Michael Moore. "Before they started taking steroids...I liked the '57 even better."

1967 Ford F-250 V8 four-speed

 Looks clean, and is up for auction on B-A-T. Details here.

1960 Willys Jeep Trucks. Colorado Springs

 

St James Hotel. Cimarron, New Mexico

 The place to stay in Cimarron, New Mexico. Epicenter of the Colfax County War of the 1870s. There were "wars" like this all over the Wild West from the end of the Civil War into the 1890s. Apart from the Indian Wars---there were these county wars (Lincoln County War in NM, starring Billy the Kid; Johnson County War in Wyo.) All had to do with ownership and rights re land that had been of course stolen from th original inhabitants. Lots of guns around because of the history of Indian Wars and probably in the 1870s lots of young men with experience of mass violence from the Civil War. There was a good deal of murder in Colfax County, some of it in the saloon bar that occupied this site before the St James was put up in the 1880s.