Behind the Mountains Author:Oliver LA Farge Pulitzer Prize winning author Oliver La Farge married into a New Mexico ranching family. This lively account of the life of his wife, Consuelo Baca, and her family on a sprawling sheep ranch in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains in the 1920s captures a way of life that ended with the Depression and the intrusion of the outside world. Most of the con... more »tents of Behind the Mountains first appeared in The New Yorker; the book was first published in 1956 and has long been unavailable. This new edition includes photos from the La Farge family collection and a preface and afterword by the author's son.« less