An early Tony Hillerman work. This is a beautiful copy in the second state dustjacket (two photos on back jacket). What is New Mexico? Of the many writers who have tried to answer that question, we thibk Tony Hillerman comes closest to answering it without romanticizing this desert country. The essays that make up "The Great Taos Bank Robbery" tell of a wide variety of incidents, characters and places that "offer insights into the mystique of this high, dry tag-end of the American Rockies." Some slight "sunning" to the DJ spine accounts for the NF+ grading.