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LINCOLN

Broadband internet and Billy the Kid may seem like an unlikely pair. But both have brought excitement to this rural town between Ruidoso and Roswell.

Lincoln is a community steeped in its own history. One recent Sunday morning, dozens of locals mounted horses, climbed aboard floats and set out — with a call of “Wagons ho!” — in honor of the town’s annual Old Lincoln Days celebration.

A historic courthouse — home of the lockup where Billy the Kid, sentenced to hang, famously broke free after killing the deputies charged with guarding him — still stands at one end of town.

The central street, now dotted with historical markers rather than outlaws, still features the trappings of the Old West: thick adobe walls, false-front façades, a distinct lack of cell service.

However, there