Any resident of the Rio Grande watershed will love this book. . . . A humane, humanistic, and thematically attractive set of essays that are quickly read, enjoyed, and savored.
New Mexico Historical Review

Sparkles among the many books written about the Río Grande. Río captures the relationship between the river and those it touches with language and essays as evocative as the images themselves. Readers will be rewarded with a deeper understanding of the Río Grande through this spectacular book.--Evan R. Ward, author of Border Oasis: Water and the Political Ecology of the Colorado River Delta, 1940-1975

Sparkles among the many books written about the Río Grande. Río captures the relationship between the river and those it touches with language and essays as evocative as the images themselves. Readers will be rewarded with a deeper understanding of the Río Grande through this spectacular book.--Evan R. Ward, author of Border Oasis: Water and the Political Ecology of the Colorado River Delta, 1940-1975

Tremendously compelling. This book provides a great hint of what has once been as well as what could yet again be.--Jack Loeffler, author of Thinking Like a Watershed: Voices from the West