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kpickens512 's review for:
The Great Taos Bank Robbery and other True Stories of the Southwest
by Tony Hillerman
This short book is a collection of articles written by Tony Hillerman, the New Mexican mystery writer. If you are not familiar with his series, the TV show Dark Wind is based on his writing. The first story in the collection about a bank robbery is the small community of Taos reminds me a lot of Garrison Keillor’s sense of humor. The main running joke is when anything happens in Taos, the police hear about it last. The book was written in 1974 and covers some events that are no longer remembered in local history. The one that caught my interest was a story about an out break of bubonic plague in New Mexico that was carried by prairie dogs and transmitted by flea bites from being in contact with the rodents. In Santa Fe where I live there are prairie dogs along St Francis Dr, and according to this story they were in Ashbrough Park during this time which is right near my home.