Melody Groves

Melody Groves, author of four novels set in the 1860s Southwest, also wrote Ropes, Reins, and Rawhide: All About Rodeo (UNM Press). A New Mexico gunfighter, she reenacts "shoot-outs" in Albuquerque’s Old Town.

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Sonoran Rage

A Colton Brothers Saga, No. 2

La Frontera Publishing

As rage explodes across the Sonoran Desert in Arizona Territory, 1861, blood stains the sand. Will the Colton brothers survive?

  • Copyright year: 2008
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Border Ambush

La Frontera Publishing

This gripping western portrays 1860 southern New Mexico in all its raw brutality.

  • Copyright year: 2009
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Arizona War

A Colton Brothers Saga

La Frontera Publishing

The Colton brothers must overcome Apaches, Confederate Texans, and their own demons at the start of the Civil War.

  • Copyright year: 2008
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Hoist a Cold One!

Historic Bars of the Southwest

By Melody Groves; Photographs by Myke Groves
University of New Mexico Press

This lively travelogue, complete with driving directions, will inspire visitors to the West's old mining camps, railroad towns, and ranching centers to stop in and belly up to the bar.

  • Copyright year: 2011
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Ropes, Reins, and Rawhide

All About Rodeo

University of New Mexico Press

The workings, workers, and animals of the heartstopping world of rodeo.

  • Copyright year: 2006
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