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Western Heritage Awards
Linda Mitchell Davis
Awarded in 2022

Linda Mitchell Davis

Lifetime Achievement

Bio

Linda Mitchell Davis has been a Museum Board member since 1988 and was previously inducted into the Hall of Great Westerners, along with her husband, Les, in 2000. Her father, Albert K. Mitchell, was one of the founders of the Museum. Linda is a fourth-generation rancher who lived through the drought and Dust Bowl era in the early 1930’s. She and her husband Les ran the CS Ranch in Cimarron, New Mexico until his death in 2001. She was also New Mexico’s first representative on the Cattlemen’s Beef Board.

Bio

Linda Mitchell Davis has been a Museum Board member since 1988 and was previously inducted into the Hall of Great Westerners, along with her husband, Les, in 2000. Her father, Albert K. Mitchell, was one of the founders of the Museum. Linda is a fourth-generation rancher who lived through the drought and Dust Bowl era in the early 1930’s. She and her husband Les ran the CS Ranch in Cimarron, New Mexico until his death in 2001. She was also New Mexico’s first representative on the Cattlemen’s Beef Board.

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