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The Great Taos Bank Robbery: And Other True Stories of the Southwest

โœ Scribed by Hillerman, Tony

Publisher
HarperCollins
Year
1973
Tongue
English
Weight
153 KB
Category
Fiction

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โœฆ Synopsis

Review

"This collection is the essence of Hillerman, which is always instructive fun." -- *--*New Mexican

Product Description

In this extraordinary collection, Tony Hillerman presents the Southwest as only he can, choosing remarkable true tales from his personal archives of local lore. As you read these stories, you will be amazed, astounded, and oftentimes confounded by the power of ingenuity, serendipity, and the strange, comical coincidence of life and how it proves, once again, that truth is ultimately stranger than fiction.

From the amusing title story of the holdup that didn't happen, to the riveting account of scientists tracking Black Death through the arroyos, to the ironic account of how a black cowboy's commonsense intelligence destroyed the dogma of the Smithsonian Institution, master storyteller Tony Hillerman reveals the present and timeless past of one of America's most beautiful and haunting regions.

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