Melody Groves

About The Author

Melody Groves, author of four novels set in the 1860s Southwest, also wrote Ropes, Reins, and Rawhide: All About Rodeo (UNM Press). A New Mexico gunfighter, she reenacts "œshoot-outs" in Albuquerque's Old Town.

Books by Melody Groves

Ropes, Reins, and Rawhide

All About Rodeo

A wild ride into the workings, workers, and animals of the heartstopping world of rodeo.
Hoist a Cold One!

Historic Bars of the Southwest

Photographs by Myke Groves
This lively travelogue, complete with driving directions, will inspire visitors to the West's old mining camps, railroad towns, and ranching centers to stop in and belly up to the bar.
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