The Mogollon News

Mogollon, New Mexico, in its remote canyon on the edge of the Gila Wilderness, is one of the Southwest's classic ghost towns. One of the few where gold and silver bricks really did come out on the stage coach, for decades. Originally a newspaper and Public Radio feature when Uncle River lived in Mogollon in the 1980s, these stories are fiction. But they caught a sense of place well enough that River's postmaster wondered why she didn't know the people.


Uncle River now lives in Pie Town, just...