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For the star of The Saint (1997) and At First Sight, that is Santa Fe—a place where the facts of land bump up against mysticism on a daily basis. “Take the mountains in New Mexico,” says Kilmer.

Hardie, a retired Santa Fe New Mexican employee, said Kilmer “just loved Rowe” and wanted to live on the Pecos River. Asked what he loved about New Mexico, Hardie said “the whole part of it.” ...

In the summer of 2006, I made my way to a steep embankment on the Pecos River just east of Santa Fe, New Mexico, to meet Val Kilmer. The actor, who died Tuesday at age 65, was movie-star handsome ...

In the summer of 2006, USA TODAY reporter Marco della Cava visited Kilmer on land near Santa Fe, New Mexico, where he was building something new: not a motion picture, but a treehouse.