The other state New Mexico, USA
by Richard McCord.
- Santa Fe, N.M. : Sunstone Press, c2003.
- 119 p. ; 23 cm.
The storyteller. The first time -- The fires of summer -- The years that flowed -- The other state. The Squaw man -- The graveyard fiesta -- The dead ringer -- The desert trail -- The apostrophe -- The ordinary house -- The maestro -- The compound caper -- The hermitage -- The code talkers -- The lady jocks -- The false book -- The little world -- The wolves -- The snowfall -- The silver birds -- The severed foot -- The movies -- The war correspondent -- The lonesome place -- The cave -- The sweatlodge -- The Magdalena playhouse -- The henchmen -- The homeboy -- The low and the mighty -- The Christmas confession.
The party in the cemetery. The amputation of the bronze foot. The reincarnation of Billy the Kid. The only book ever to make The New York Times best-seller list of both fiction and non-fiction. The female gentleman. The cave that waited 40 years. The murderous "squaw man." Where will you find these strange stories, and more? Only in The Other State: New Mexico, USA. Anyone who lives in or travels to New Mexico understands that it is a place unlike anywhere else. Extremely unlike anywhere else. These true tales, brief and fast-moving, paint a unique portrait of a unique land. They are told by a multiple-award-winning writer, who found his home in New Mexico decades ago and has been telling its story ever since. If you too feel New Mexico's spell, then welcome to...The Other State -- Back cover.
0865344035 (softcover) 9780865344037 (softcover)
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