The Life and Times of Fritz Thompson

About the Book

The Life and Times of Fritz Thompson Growing up on a ranch in rural New Mexico, situated in the seam between the Sangre de Cristo Mountains and the New Mexico High Plains, a native son chronicles the legacy of his forefathers and his hometown in this lighthearted love letter to the rural era of the 1940s and ’50s.

About the Author

A native son in New Mexico writes of an adolescent boy during the 1940s and ’50s, an idyllic time in America and the Southwest the likes of which we will never see again. Framed between an iconic mountain range and the High Plains, Fritz Thompson’s small hometown symbolized his evolution from an otherwise unremarkable journey through minority status in a school where he later strived for redemption from earlier shortcomings. The part and parcel of this life—toddler to teenager—spent with a talented brother, a transplant rancher father, and an often willful mother led to forty years as an award-winning writer/reporter/editor: a day-and-night New Mexico newspaperman in the days when the story mattered more than the byline.