Rudolfo Anaya shot to stardom with his first novel, 1972’s Bless Me, Ultima, which got rejected by New York and Boston publishers, and found a home at a Chicano press in Berkeley, California.
He has authored works of fiction, nonfiction, plays, poems and children’s books, some of which he read at the White House for President Jimmy Carter.
He also received the National Medal in Arts from Presi

True West June 2018
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- What History Has Taught Me: Rudolfo Anaya
- A Watch to Die For
- Did Ranches have Ice Houses?
- Idaho City: Queen of the Gold Camps
- Western Events for June 2018
- Did Gunmen really make Tenderfeet “Dance” by Shooting at their Feet?
- Was “Little Gertie, the Gold Dollar” Real?
- Romance and the Buffalo Hunt
- Discover San Angelo – An Oasis in West Texas, Off the Beaten Path
- What Happened in the Billy Allen-”Doc” Holliday Fight Over $5?
- The Painter’s Cabin
- The Dodge City Lawdog