by Loretta Miles Tollefson (Author)
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 marry the Pueblo man she loves.
Obsessions - An Episcopal Methodist missionary interferes in Maxwell Land Grant Company politics and suffers the consequences.
Author Biography
Loretta Miles Tollefson grew up in the American West in a log cabin built by her grandfather. She lives in New Mexico's Sangre de Cristo mountains, where she researches the region's history and imagines what it would have been like to actually experience it.