River of Traps

New Mexico’s Sangre de Cristo mountains are a place where two cultures — Hispanic and Anglo — meet. They''re also the place where three men meet: William deBuys, a young writer; Alex Harris, a young photographer; and Jacobo Romero, an old farmer. When Harris and deBuys move to New Mexico in the 1970s, Romero is the neighbor who befriends them and becomes their teacher. With the tools of simple lab...