Here is a good one Jerry Amazon.com: God's Middle Finger: Into the Lawless Heart of the Sierra Madre: Richard Grant: Books range starts near the Arizona Border. I have driven parts of the Sierra madre, from San Pedro on the shore of Presa Novillo , to Canonea in 2006. I have no doubt, it would be easy to get wacked anywhere along the Ruta Rio Sonora now. It was a little wierd back then.
I know that guy...fun book but a lot is bs...I know the guy he went down there with...he has a great girlfriend out of this named Marriah....she is trouble..in a good way
lagrimas85 said:
Here is a good one Jerry Amazon.com: God's Middle Finger: Into the Lawless Heart of the Sierra Madre: Richard Grant: Books range starts near the Arizona Border. I have driven parts of the Sierra madre, from San Pedro on the shore of Presa Novillo , to Canonea in 2006. I have no doubt, it would be easy to get wacked anywhere along the Ruta Rio Sonora now. It was a little wierd back then.
I know that guy...fun book but a lot is bs...I know the guy he went down there with...he has a great girlfriend out of this named Marriah....she is trouble..in a good way
Being from England, says it all. I bet the Mexican Hillbillies, as he called them did chase him all night, trying to kill him.
We have a ranch in Yecora Sonora, Pretty sure we pick him up! Lonely gringo running around top of the sierra madra!
Google Image Result for http://mw2.google.com/mw-panoramio/photos/medium/12911823.jpg I never paid any attention to Yecora before, the place in some photos, looks alot like the Showlow area. It also looks like there are a few U.S.er's living there. I meant to ask you if it could have been any of your tio's or primo's that were chasing him.
" The People of Sonora and Yankee Capitalists" this book will give you a rich understanding of the people of Sonora, if you care.
Read the author Davit Yetman. Several books rich in culture and understanding. He drove from Tucson to Guymas in the 60s on a Vespa Scooter and wrote about it "Sonora, an intimate Geography" He is still at the University in Tucson. He spent a lot of time with the Seris and traded with them. Find his books at ABEBooks.com.
Also any good book on the history of the revolution will give you a good context to understand they way things have been.
I've hardly read any fiction the past 15-20 years, but Cormac McCarthy is the important exception. All the Pretty Horses is a master work, and the movie version is definitely worth seeing. It was directed by Billy Bob Thornton, who had wanted to make it 8 hours long due to the episodic nature of the storyline, but was fortunately overruled by the studio heads.
Blood Meridian is a gut-wrenching read about a band of ruthless Americans who hunted Apaches for their scalps and collected bounties from the Mexican government. This was a true historical event told in a way that resembles a nightmare. One critic described the book as "Hieronymous Bosch meets Sam Peckinpah as Faulkner would have written it." Can't think of a better description. I was about to write that I can't imagine it ever being made into a film, but just to be sure I checked the Internet Movie Data Base and see that a movie version is currently in development, no cast or director having been picked yet. That's gonna be a challenge, so don't wait for the movie.
Speaking of movies, McCarthy's No Country for Old Men is probably his best known work due to the movie having won the Academy Award for best picture. It doesn't qualify for the list of books set in Mexico because most of it takes place this side of the border. But if you only read one of McCarthy's novels, that should probably be the one.
From all the pretty horses; "it was good that God kept the truths of life from the young as they were starting out or else they'd have no heart to start at all."
He also hosts "The Desert Speaks" on PBS in Tucson. That's a great show, mostly on the Sonoran Desert, but many shows have been on Central Mexico as well.[/COLOR]
