Tony Hillerman: The Great Taos Bank Robbery (USA 2023)

From the Publisher:
This classic collection of nonfiction essays about life in New Mexico by the great Tony Hillerman remains a must read for anyone looking to understand the state's unique charm. The vivid pieces in The Great Taos Bank Robbery paint an indelible portrait of life -- with all its magnificent quirks and foibles -- in the Land of Enchantment.

Celebrating fifty years since its original 1973 release, this anniversary edition offers a new introduction by noted Hillerman biographer James McGrath Morris and a foreword by Anne Hillerman, introducing a new generation of readers to the magic of Tony Hillerman and New Mexico.

Tony Hillerman: The Great Taos Bank Robbery. And Other True Stories. 50th Anniversary Edition. Introduction by Anne Hillerman. Foreword by James McGrath Morris. University of New Mexico Press, ISBN: 9780826365453 (August, 2023), 152 p., $17.95, eBook $8.99.

Tony Hillerman: The Great Taos Bank Robbery (USA 2001)

From the Publisher:
In this extraordinary collection, Tony Hillerman presents the Southwest as only he can, choosing remarkable true tales from his personal archives of local lore. As you read these stories, you will be amazed, astounded, and oftentimes confounded by the power of ingenuity, serendipity, and the strange, comical coincidence of life and how it proves, once again, that truth is ultimately stranger than fiction.

From the amusing title story of the holdup that didn't happen, to the riveting account of scientists tracking Black Death through the arroyos, to the ironic account of how a black cowboy's commonsense intelligence destroyed the dogma of the Smithsonian Institution, master storyteller Tony Hillerman reveals the present and timeless past of one of America's most beautiful and haunting regions.

Tony Hillerman: The Great Taos Bank Robbery. And Other True Stories of the Southwest. Perennial, ISBN: 0060937122 (October, 2001), 192 p., $13.00.

Tony Hillerman: The Great Taos Bank Robbery (USA 1997)

From the Publisher:
Tony Hillerman knows the Southwest like no other contemporary writer. In this extraordinary collection of masterpieces, he presents the Southwest as only he can. From the comical title story of the holdup that didn't happen, to the riveting account of scientist tracking the Black Death through the arroyos in "We All Fall Down," to the ironic account of how a Black cowboy's commonsense intelligence destroyed the dogma of the Smithsonian Institution in "Othello in Union County," master storyteller Tony Hillerman reveals the present and the timeless past of one of America's most beautiful and haunting regions.

From its wry politics to its astonishing history, to the hypnotic rhythm of daily life, here is the New Mexico you've never seen but will come to love.

"Hillerman is surely one of the finest and most original craftsman at work...today." -- Boston Globe Book Review

Tony Hillerman: The Great Taos Bank Robbery. And Other Indian Country Affairs. HarperPaperbacks, ISBN: 0061011738 (May, 1997), 178 p., $5.99.

Tony Hillerman: The Great Taos Bank Robbery (USA 1980)

From the Publisher:
This collection of essays about life in New Mexico by one of the state's finest writers is must reading for all New Mexicans and for all others trying to understand the state's unique charm.

"Hillerman displays a maturing, remarkably versatile gift that seems more and more likely to earn a permanent high rank among the Southwest's finest writers... readers who have not discovered Hillerman should not waste one single minute more." - Sunday Oklahoman

"What newcomers sometimes find irritating in the general incompetency and charm of this capital of mañana, Hillerman portrays with simple accuracy: it is hilarious."- Taos News

"This collection is the essence of Hillerman, which is always instructive fun... Hillerman fans will delight in factual stories that appear in fictional guise in Dance Hall of the Dead."- New Mexican

"Deserves a wide readership-a national readership... some of Hillerman's pieces are classics... the kind of great writing that uses regional commentary to explain what may be innate behaviors in all Western humans." - Albuquerque Journal

Tony Hillerman is professor of journalism at the University of New Mexico and an Edgar Award-winning mystery novelist. His latest mystery novel is Listening Woman.

Tony Hillerman: The Great Taos Bank Robbery. And Other Indian Country Affairs. A Zia Book. University of New Mexico Press, ISBN: 082630530X (June, 1980), 192 p., $4.00.

Tony Hillerman: The Great Taos Bank Robbery (USA 1973)

From the Publisher:
What is New Mexico? Of the many writers who have tried to answer that question, we think Tony Hillerman comes closest to answering it without romanticizing this desert country. He is not a historian, not a guidebook-writer; his book, as he says, is "not intended to convert the Lubbock-jersey City philistia, or to please any chambers of commerce." 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." We hope with the author, that one could send it away to a literate friend and have him understand a little better the hold this country has on many who live here.

Among the tales and sketches in this book are
"The Great Taos Bank Robbery" -- an examination of the nature of Taos, as exposed by the community's reaction to the efforts of a pair of inept badmen to rob the First National Bank and to the subsequent comic opera manhunt
"The Very Heart of Our Country" -- a look at the Holy Land of the Navajos and its mythic landmarks
"We All Fall Down" -- the Pecos high country visited on a tense hunt for the foci of bubonic plague bacilli which had already killed two men
"The Conversion of Cletus Xywanda" -- the peculiarities of Santa Fe considered in terms of their impact on a Nigerian political editor.
"The Hunt for the Lost American" -- a profile of the excavation of a Folsom Man hunting camp on the Liano de Albuquerque
"Quijote in Rio Arriba County" -- a study of the gentle mystic radical Reies López Tijerina and his Land Grant movement.
"Othello in Union County" -- how a closed-minded physical anthropologist and a black scholar-cowboy made Folsom, New Mexico famous.

Tony Hillerman: The Great Taos Bank Robbery. And Other Indian Country Affairs. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1973, ISBN: 0826303064, 147 p., $?.??.