Name of book set in high plains of New Mexico...

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...during WWII about a boy whose family moved to their summer home while their father went to sea as a captain on a destroyer. I think it was the author's first book and it was written in the 60's. A coming-of-age story for the teenaged boy. Wife and I can't remember the book's or author's name, would love it if someone in the HF nation does.
 
I am pretty sure that Red Dawn takes place in some small town in Colorado. I always thought it looked a little bit like the area around Alamosa which is pretty close to the New Mexico border.

I looked it up. The movie takes place in Calumet, Colorado although it was filmed in Las Vegas, New Mexico.
 
It's kinda mountainous in those parts. They must have been really selective for small parcels of land to not get mountains in the picture like they are up there.

I thought No Country was filmed in West Texas, where it was set.
 
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A small part of NCFOM was shot in West Texas and Piedras Negras, but the majority of it was shot around Las Vegas, NM.












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Huh, you don't say. They had their work cut out for them. Then again it is not as bumpy as further north towards Raton or Chama.
 
Red Sky at Morning is the book. Took all of 1 business hour to answer a question that's been nagging my wife and I - albeit subtilely - for 5+ years. Bummer I can't put it on a Kindle - it would have been the perfect first book for my wife as a Mother's Day present next weekend.
 
That's what I was thinking. They surely did not go towards Raton. They for sure did not go towards the land we have in between Pecos and Vegas. They could have done real well out by Clovis and that area too. A whole lot of nothing.
 
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