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The Great Taos Bank Robbery
And Other True Stories
Introduction by Anne Hillerman
Foreword by James McGrath Morris
Published by: University of New Mexico Press
Celebrating fifty years since its original 1973 release, this anniversary edition offers a new introduction by noted Hillerman biographer James McGrath Morris and a foreword by Anne Hillerman, introducing a new generation of readers to the magic of Tony Hillerman and New Mexico.
Tony Hillerman (1925-2008) was an award-winning author and newspaperman, best known for his mystery novels set on the Navajo Nation.
Anne Hillerman's debut novel, Spider Woman's Daughter, received the Western Writers Spur Award for Best First Novel. That book and the six novels that followed were all New York Times best sellers. Her eighth mystery, The Way of the Bear, will launch in April 2023. Her books continue the Navajo detective stories her father, Tony Hillerman, made popular. When she's not working, Anne likes to read, cook, hike, ski, and travel. She lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico, and Tucson, Arizona, and makes frequent trips to the Navajo Nation.
James McGrath Morris
Acknowledgments
Great Taos Bank Robbery: An Introduction
Anne Hillerman
Chapter 1. The Great Taos Bank Robbery
Chapter 2. The Navajo Who Had So Many Friends He Couldn't Get No Wire Strung
Chapter 3. The Very Heart of Our Country
Chapter 4. The Mountain on the Guardrail at Exit 164B
Chapter 5. We All Fall Down
Chapter 6. The Messenger Birds
Chapter 7. The Conversion of Cletus Xywanda
Chapter 8. The Apache Who Wouldn't Be Missed
Chapter 9. The Hunt for the Lost American
Chapter 10. How Quemado Got Quemado
Chapter 11. Las Trampas
Chapter 12. Black Jack Ketchum and the Sixteen Faithful Bartenders
Chapter 13. Othello in Union County
Chapter 14. The Committee and the Mule Deer
Chapter 15. Quijote in Rio Arriba County
Chapter 16. Keeping Secrets from the Russians
Chapter 17. Mr. Luna's Lazarus Act
Author's Notes