Book description
Taking his title, Paso Por Aqui, from Juan de Onate's carving in the living rock of El Morro, New Mexico, Eugene Manlove Rhodes created his own memorial to the decent people of his world who had ""passed this way"" without fanfare.
Rhodes wrote about them with wit, gusto, and tenderness,…
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Another old cowboy story, a short novel published in 1926, is still in print in a 1973 edition from the University of Oklahoma Press. Rhodes, the author, was a roughhewn cowboy so his depictions and details are authentic. McEwen, star of the show, is on the run from the law and navigates the waste places of the New Mexico deserts and mountains. He is captured when he stops to lend aid to a family in need, but the story does not end in the way you might expect of a Western.
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