num_pages: 529
description: Boom times came to the forgotten little southwestern town of Chamisaville just as the rest of America was in the Great Depression. They came when a rattletrap bus loaded with stolen dynamite blew sky high, leaving behind a giant gushing hot spring. Within minutes, the town's wheeler-dealers had organized, and within a year, Chamisaville was flooded with tourists and pilgrims. The wheeler-dealers were rich -- and that was only the beginning....
language: English
title: The magic journey: A novel
titlecomplete: The magic journey: A novel
genres: Fiction, American, Magical Realism, Westerns, Humor, Literature, Novels, 20th Century, Literary Fiction
ratings_count: 548
series: The New Mexico Trilogy
publisher: Holt, Rinehart, and Winston