About the Author

The "Route 66 Storyteller" has risen from the ashes. Ronald P. Chávez was born in the farming village of Puerto de Luna in New Mexico on the banks of the Pecos River. He spent years as owner of the Club Cafe on historic Old Route 66. He writes poems and stories about the people and places of those times. “The gente,” he says of them, “are the salt of the earth.” Chavez currently lives and writes in Taos, NM. READ MORE..

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His early short stories first appeared in two weekly newspapers, The Santa Rosa News & The Communicator.
To help support his writing, he does story telling and guest lecturing on New Mexico’s history and culture.
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Winds of Wildfire (Ron Chavez)

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By Ron Chavez
January 2011
Pages: 214
ISBN 10: 145386203X | ISBN 13: 978-1453862032

Winds of Wildfire rages with passion, the tensions of sexual intrigue, the excitement of complex relationships, the brilliance of the Old West's offering, the feel and look of people and places. This intense story gets into men's minds and woman's hearts and both their souls.

Mini-novel set in the beautiful backdrop of Taos, New Mexico, "Winds of Wildfire” is as much a novel as it is a tribute to the Spanish/Indian perspective of life and death which can pose interesting predicaments and contrasts to the traditional Anglo American lifestyle. Ronald Chávez writes with the pace and feel of a Michael Crichton thriller and the frankness of Walt Whitman.

Life in the Southwest was once a wide open frontier untouched by western influences and kept in harmony by a thousand year old native culture. Now in modern times, the mix of cultures in Chávez's book have found a tentative melting pot balance which is often teetering upon unforeseen circumstances lurking around the next corner. Life's riches are explored though the vastness of the other's culture. The central character, Amee, is an easterner who must confront the hurdles of being a single woman in a Hispanic/Indian governed society without her normal support structures she's accustomed to relying upon.

The imagery of Chávez’s New Mexico is breathtakingly distinctive. The voyage is swift and exhilarating. "Winds of Wildfire" is a celebration of southwestern life from a refreshing and enlightened perspective. It's a "can't put down book" which will reel you into another realm of understanding of the "Land of Enchantment".

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