by Jim Jones | Apr 24, 2025 | Articles
Political unrest and upheaval; conspiracy and deception; rival factions vying for power- does this sound familiar? Set in New Mexico in 1846 during the Mexican American War, Loretta Miles Tollefson’s latest book, An Unhappy Country, chronicles all of this and more....
by Jim Jones | Nov 12, 2024 | Articles
The Pink Dress: A Memoir of a Reluctant Beauty Queen by Jane Little Botkin is not what you might expect from just glancing at the title. Yes, it does take the reader inside the unique world of beauty pageants in the 60s and 70s but it’s neither a glamorous nor...
by Jim Jones | May 23, 2023 | Articles
Manuela Schneider is an author, a screenwriter/movie producer and a songwriter. Mostly, she is a force of nature and a natural-born storyteller. She is from Germany and has been fascinated with the American West for most of her life. When I was asked to review her...
by Jim Jones | May 24, 2022 | Articles
Rod Miller is an award-winning author and poet. People toss the phrase, “award-winning,” around so much that it can become meaningless, so let me give you a little context. Rod has won four Western Writers of America Spur Awards; he has won awards from the Western...
by Jim Jones | Apr 29, 2022 | Articles
We went to a house concert last night, the Rio Rancho House Concert Series specifically, and we saw and heard a fantastic performer- excellent singer, accomplished songwriter, killer guitarist. We arrived worn out from a long day of work and left energized and excited...
