Rural Odyssey VI
Abilene Trail Mix
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Mark J. Curran is Professor Emeritus from Arizona State University where he worked from 1968 to 2011. He taught Spanish Language as well as the Survey of Spanish Literature, a seminar on "Don Quixote," and Civilization of Spain and Latin America. He also taught the Portuguese Language (Brazilian Variant) as well as a survey of Luso-Brazilian Civilization, and seminars on Chico Buarque de Hollanda, and lastly, Brazil's Folk-Popular Literature ("A Literatura de Cordel"). He has written forty-eight books, eight in academic circles before retirement, forty with author's publishing since retirement. Color images and summaries of the books appear on his website: www.currancordelconnection.com His e-mail address is profmark@asu.edu. Mark grew up in Abilene, Kansas and has always been interested in the cow town and Chisholm Trail Story. The Smoky Hill Trail and Santa Fe Trail are natural next steps. RURAL ODYSSEY VI Abilene - Trail Mix combines fiction and history. It tells of Mike O'Reilly, his wife Mariah Palafox O'Reilly and daughter Ariel's return to Abilene, Kansas for a one - year stay. Mike and Mariah hold adjunct positions at DDEC, Dwight D. Eisenhower College, where Mike taught since 1963 and Mariah in the 1970s. Daughter Ariel returns to the town and schoolmates where she grew up. Mike's research on a new book at the Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library is followed by fieldwork tracing the famous cow towns of the Chisholm Trail and major frontier trails west - the Smoky Hill River Trail from Kansas to Colorado and the all-important Santa Fe Trail from Kansas to New Mexico. The latter connects with the Camino Real de Tierra Adentro Trail from Mexico City to Santa Fe. Research and life in Abilene are mixed as well, the latter with some surprises.
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RURAL ODYSSEY VI Abilene - Trail Mix combines fiction and history. It tells of Mike O'Reilly, his wife Mariah Palafox O'Reilly and daughter Ariel's return to Abilene, Kansas for a one - year stay. Mike and Mariah hold adjunct positions at DDEC, Dwight D. Eisenhower College, where Mike taught since 1963 and Mariah in the 1970s. Daughter Ariel returns to the town and schoolmates where she grew up. Mike's research on a new book at the Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library is followed by fieldwork tracing the famous cow towns of the Chisholm Trail and major frontier trails west - the Smoky Hill River Trail from Kansas to Colorado and the all-important Santa Fe Trail from Kansas to New Mexico. The latter connects with the Camino Real de Tierra Adentro Trail from Mexico City to Santa Fe. Research and life in Abilene are mixed as well, the latter with some surprises.