Title: Book of Archives and Other Stories from the Mora Valley, New Mexico
Description: Collection of forty-two short stories and vignettes that together paint a portrait of the Mora Valley, the real-life northern New Mexico setting for a group of small nuevomexicano villages. The author partially based his text on historical information and the oral tradition of tales about healers, ranch owners, archivists, soldiers, scribes, witches, warlocks, penitentes (lay religious men), priests and others.
Subjects: Mexican americans, New mexico, social life and customs, Fiction, Ethnic identity, Social life and customs