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River of Traps: A New Mexico Mountain Life Textiles greasewood flourishes where little elseNew Mexicos Sangre de Cristo mountains are a place where two cultures, Hispanic and Anglo, meet. They're also the place where three men meet: William deBuys, a young writer; Alex Harris, a young photographer; and Jacobo Romero, an old farmer. When Harris and deBuys move to New Mexico in the 1970s, Romero is the neighbor who befriends them and becomes their teacher. With the tools of simple labor shovel and axe, irony and humor he shows them how to