This was in early June: the glare of the desert sun, glancing off the steel hood of the truck, stung my eyes with such intensity that I had to close them now and then for relief. We were riding north from El Paso in my grandfather’s pickup truck, bound for the village of Baker and the old man’s ranch. Yet it also felt as familiar as home, the country of dreams, the land I had known from the beginning. In the vivid light each rock and tree and cloud and mountain existed with a kind of force and clarity that seemed not natural but supernatural. “The Thoreau of the American West.” -Larry McMurtry, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Lonesome Dove Read moreīrightest New Mexico. “Abbey is a fresh breath from the farther reaches and canyons of the diminishing frontier.” - Houston Chronicle
When backed into a corner, a tough old man like him will come out fighting . . .įire on the Mountain is a suspenseful page-turner by “one of the very best writers to deal with the American West”-the acclaimed author of such classics as The Monkey Wrench Gang and the memoir Desert Solitaire ( The Washington Post).
A New Mexico man faces off against the government in a battle over his land in this novel by the author of Desert Solitaire.Īfter nine months away at school, Billy Vogelin Starr returns home to his beloved New Mexico-only to find his grandfather in a standoff with the US government, which wants to take his land and turn it into an extension of the White Sands Missile Range.įacing the combined powers of the US county sheriff, the Department of the Interior, the Atomic Energy Commission, and the US Air Force, John Vogelin stands his ground-because to Vogelin, his land is his life.
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