In the Moro: Disaster in the San Juans - Softcover

Wise, Joe

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1890437247 ISBN 13: 9781890437244

Publisher: Western Reflections Pub Co, 1999

Synopsis

One snowy fall in the early 1840's, John C. Fremont and his crew of thirty-three men headed to the high country of Colorado. Their mission: to survey the rugged San Juan Mountains for a railroad route. Instead, they found snow up to their shoulders, bone-chilling cold, and - except for Fremont and his guide - death.

In the Moro is based on that disastrous Fremont Fourth Expedition which occurred exactly 150 years ago during the winter of 1848-49. This historical novel teams a retired physician and a retired college history professor in a search for what really happened during the snow-bound disaster where men ate their mules and then each other until only two men returned to civilization. The fictionalized but certainly credible ending may surprise you.

This wonderful story takes place in southwestern Colorado and northern New Mexico, jumping back and forth between the present and 1849 until the reader feels that he is actually part of the past.

About this title

From the Publisher:

Author Joe Wise is a cardiologist who lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico. However, his real love is writing. Joe Wise's first novel, Cannibal Plateau, won Best Historical Novel at the 1995 Southwest Writers Workshop. This book is even better.

About the Author:

Joe Wise was born in Texas and has travelled extensively in the Rocky Mountain southwest. He has written for a number of periodicals including the Travel Section of the New York Times, the Sante Fe New Mexican and the Albuquerque Journal, Sunset, Travel Smart and New Mexico magazines, The Journal of the West and The Journal of Military History of Texas and The Southwest. His first novel, Cannibal Plateau, was judged Best Historical Novel at the 1995 Southwest Writers Workshop. Recently granted membership in Western Writers of America, Wise lives with his wife in Santa Fe where he is working on his third novel.

About this edition

• Publisher: Western Reflections Pub Co
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 1890437247
• ISBN 13: 9781890437244
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 192