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Eugene Manlove Rhodes is New Mexico’s acclaimed author of realistic Western stories and novels. Explore how his life shaped his stories and how one novel, Paso Por Aqui, is still praised today. In 1948 it was turned into the movie Four Faces West, one of the most expensive B Westerns ever made in Hollywood. The film starred Joel McCrea and much of it was filmed here in New Mexico.
Jim Eckles worked for White Sands Missile Range for 30 years and has been a volunteer there since he retired in 2007. When he retired, Eckles became informally known as the “WSMR historian.” While at the range, he wrote and spoke extensively about the mission of the missile range and area history. He wrote a book about the first atomic bomb test, Trinity: The History of An Atomic Bomb Test Site.