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It's August 3, 1837, and rebellion has broken out in northern New Mexico. By the end of the week, Governor Albino Pérez and key members of his administration will be dead, and a governor with indigenous ancestry will be installed in Santa Fe. Trouble's been brewing for over a year, fed by new laws restricting the right to vote, the threat of new taxes, and a governor who's quicker to borrow money than distribute it. On top of that, Pérez has j...

Forty-two micro-stories set in Old New Mexico, each less than 500 words long, and many based on actual people or events. Includes:Rattled -- On the Santa Fe Trail, two men dispute a rifle's origins.Trapper in Love -- A language barrier comes between a trapper and his woman.Edward and Augusta -- The future warden of New Mexico's first Territorial Prison takes a wife.Decision Point -- Word of the Elizabethtown gold strike reaches Denver.Thicker ...

He has no family. She wishes hers would leave her alone.Lawrence's mother has just died. With the little money he has left after paying her medical bills, he heads to Seattle to make a fresh start. Deborah has plenty of family support, but not for moving to the big city. Her parents think she should stay on the farm and marry a nice local boy.But both Lawrence and Deborah are determined to make their own way. And both dream of finding not just...

And Then Moses Was There celebrates events in the Old Testament by exploring them through the eyes of people who were there.In these quietly accessible poems, Loretta Miles Tollefson combines her award-winning poetic skills and knowledge of the Bible to look in a new way at the ancient stories and the people who lived them.Read these poems and experience a fresh approach to and appreciation of the Old Testament stories. Each poem focuses on a ...

Win the Lottery, live happily ever after! Well, maybe.When Ruth and Joe Marsh win the New Mexico Lottery jackpot, they realize almost immediately that things are going to be a little complicated. But anything's possible for them now! Nothing but good can come of having this much money! Or so they think.Until Ruth's boss gives her an ultimatum: buy half his insurance agency and continue to run it, or leave. She's going to have to quit. But then...

Poems that celebrate the stories in the New Testament through the eyes of the people who lived them.

Short stories set in Old New Mexico, many based on actual people or events. Includes:That Damn Mule - A green-broke mule balks at the rain-slicked shale on a narrow mountain path.That'll Teach 'Em - A group of trappers encounters Apaches in the Gila wilderness.They Were My Friends - A tale of friendship and betrayal during the Taos uprising against American occupation.Decisions - A young woman must find a way to cross cultural barriers and mar...

Suzanna hates everything about her New Mexico mountain home. The isolation. The short growing season. The critters after her corn. The long snow-bound winters in a dimly-lit cabin.But she loves Gerald, who loves this valley.So Suzanna does her unhappy best to adjust, even when the babies come, both of them in the middle of winter. Her postpartum depression, the cold, and the lack of sunlight push her to the edge.But the Sangre de Cristo mounta...

Just a man.Known for his character, not the color of his skin.That's all Gerald, son of a free black man and an Irish servant girl, wants to be.It's an impossible goal in slave-holding Missouri, but in the West, mountain men and villagers alike seem to accept him without question.New Mexico is all that Gerald hoped for, but shortly after he arrives in Taos, he realizes he wants more than he'd thought: A girl with her own complex ancestry and a...

But Still My Child is a set of poems from the heart of one grieving woman to another.Written over a period of thirty years, these poems express the immediate pain as well as the lingering ache that miscarriage can bring. They do not provide easy answers. Instead, they acknowledge the pain while seeking to provide the comfort and companionship that only someone who has also experienced the loss of an unborn child can share.

It's 1867 in New Mexico Territory. A log cabin huddles at the base of a lonely mountain pass east of Taos. Travelers who stop to rest and eat here should be careful how they look at the teenager who serves their food. Her husband, Charles Kennedy, is subject to jealous rages. At least, he says that's why he kills and then robs the unwary. And then a baby is born. How can she raise a child in such circumstances? When Gregoria finally gets up th...