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In 1941, New Mexico was an agrarian state with just over half a million people, many of whom lived without electricity, running water, indoor plumbing, or paved roads. However, the state provided more military volunteers per capita--including eight Medal of Honor winners--than any other state and had the highest casualty rate per capita in the country. New Mexico provided essential resources ranging from oil and coal to potash and copper. The ...

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Mountains, Mesa & Memories continues in the tradition of its three award-winning predecessors: Murder, Mystery & Mayhem in the Rio Abajo (2013), A River Runs Through Us (2015), and Tragic Trails and Enchanted Journeys (2017). This latest collection adds 25 interesting new stories of the Rio Abajo. Our six authors describe individuals as varied as John Cremony, who rode 90 miles down the Jornado del Muerto chased by 40 Apaches, and Gus Raney, a...

In this, the third anthology of stories from the Rio Abajo, Richard Melzer and John Taylor have collected another twenty-four tales of people, places, and events that have shaped New Mexico history. Inside these covers you will find priests and scoundrels, merchants and politicians, faith healers and soldiers, buffalo and chupacabras, and lots of ghosts. You will travel down the Santa Fe Trail with a physician turned trader, you will ride in r...

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The Rio Grande Valley south of Albuquerque, commonly referred to as the Rio Abajo, is a treasure trove of legends, stories, and characters. In "Murder, Mystery and Mayhem, " the first volume of this series, the readers were introduced to characters such as Bronco Bill Walters, Solomon Luna, and Jose Francisco Chavez. Readers joined in the chase for the Abo Canyon Gang, recoiled at the stories of airplane crashes, and anguished over the unsolve...