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The Mogollon News
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Mogollon, New Mexico, in its remote canyon on the edge of the Gila Wilderness, is one of the Southwests classic ghost towns. One of the few where gold and silver bricks really did come out on the stage coach, for decades. Originally a newspaper and Public Radio feature when Uncle River lived in Mogollon in the 1980s, these stories are fiction. But they caught a sense of place well enough that Rivers postmaster wondered why she didnt know the people.Uncle River now lives in Pie Town, just west of the Continental Divide. A hundred miles from Mogollon, this still is in Catron County, which River has called home for most of the last 35 years. Its a county almost as large as Massachusetts, the state where River grew up, with a population about the same as the student body of the high school he attended. Rivers other work includes the novels King Freedom (also from Fantastic Books) and Nitebox. Rivers story collection, Counting Tadpoles, includes work originally published in Analog, Asimovs Science Fiction, and Amazing Stories. When not writing, chopping firewood, or tending the eight-foot fence to keep the elk out of his garden, River likes to grow lots of beets, squash, and dill.Editorial Reviews:[Uncle River is] Catron Countys most famous ex-Jungian analyst, hermit, science-fiction writer and, EMT. —David A. Fryxell, Desert ExposureLike Garrison Keillors classic tales of another small town, Lake Wobegon, Minnesota, Rivers comic news reveals a place where, as Keillor put it, smart doesnt count for much. What does count are the relationships of neighbors with one another and with the almost foreign tourists. —Sandra Griffin, New Mexico MagazineIts definitely a down-home read, and you first think the reports are from a remote small town. They are, but the book is all fiction. Yet dont you recognize some of the characters?… Easy reading on the brink of being humorous. And dont be surprised if you find yourself wanting to r
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