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TOPOGRAPHY – Poetry by Sharon Olds After we flew across the country we got in bed, laid our bodies delicately together, like maps laid face to face, East to West, my San Francisco against your New York, your Fire Island against my Sonoma, my New Orleans deep in your Texas, your Idaho bright on my Great Lakes, my Kansas burning …

Big Bend National Park is on the border between the US and Mexico, a fantastic nature reserve consists of 90% desert. Beautiful landscapes are in every corner of this park through the Chisos Mountains, but we have not made this long detour south, preferring to get back in Texas at another time, devoting time and enthusiasm to the visit of …

Cadillac Ranch – Bruce Springsteen https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SoTjkeoyr1E Ain’t No Honky Tonks in Jail – Texas American Country Music https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QVI-SRgGz9w Texas Country MusicMix https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IVb8aYa68iY Austin Texas – Live Music https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2hvkKgeYQls Slaid Cleaves – Texas Love Song https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T0rkzQzEScg

JOSEPH HENRY SHARPS 1/3 – He was born in a September day, 1859 and lived a long life (with a prolific career as a painter best known for his realistic portrayal of the American Indians). Over his lifetime, Sharp had produced around 10,500 works of art. He was the first painter to visit New Mexico, before Phillips and Blumenschein made …

Taos Pueblo, Native American song https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q8-miNPmlwE Mescalero Apache War Dance https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pef6ktVa_6o Squaw Dance Song https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYJz6oFcEFg Flamenco Dance Performance in Sandoval County, New Mexico https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-b0o0GRw4c Gene Booth New Mexico’s Country Music Legend https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Inz23hC6wUcù

He simply tells how he thinks things were for both Indians and whites, in a hard time of violence and danger and change on a raw frontier. He was an American novelist, whose lyrical work is concerned largely with life on the American frontier in various periods. Conrad Michael Richter, as a child, he lived with his family in several …

EVENING IN NEW MEXICO – Poetry by Andrew Downing Far off the Rio Grande crawls, a silver serpent in the sand. And sweetly, softly, slowly falls the shade of twilight on the land. The mockingbird, that all the day has piped, entangling note with note, in merry song, and roundelay, has quelled the lyrics in his throat. In meditation, buried …

California and Arizona are behind us. Driving along Route 66, we have not forgotten what is useful, walking on the roads of New Mexico (one of the places to be discovered across the continent most fascinating American States and wealthy): backpack, water bottle filled with water, hat and a good map. Its capital, Santa Fe, is a multicultural city that …

HARMONICA ” ARIZONA ” Country Music https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1MYfV-QIv4U Sky Blue, Young Sounds of Arizona 7 O’Clock Band https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xwpz4wAnEwo Alabama Shakes – Don’t Wanna Fight https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-5OX7CO26c Memoryhouse – Arizona https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NqbatT32qQQ

Currently she lives in Scottsdale (Arizona), with her husband – they have three adult children – (but also with two big, fat dachshunds, 2.5 cats, a varying number of parakeets and a lot of uninvited wildlife). Diana J. Gabaldon is an American author, known for the Outlander series of novels. Her books merge multiple genres, featuring elements of historical fiction, …