Gringo Lessons: Twenty Years of Terror in Taos

Gringo Lessons: Twenty Years of Terror in Taos is a tale of modern adventure about a young man who experienced the local culture from 1966 to 1987. There he met the community: skiers La Gente los vato locos Chicano activists and their Spanish contemporaries the artists drug dealers fellow soldiers tempting sirens the occasional movie star and a host of con artists. Finally the fool abandoned Taos and returned to university only to return and publish Horse Fly a monthly journal about politics and art for another decade which he promises to chronicle in a sequel: Taos Redux: The Horse Fly Years.