"Larger than Life" offers eleven essays that touch on a variety of
southwestern themes. One section highlights three people who have
dramatically shaped the region's history: pilot Charles A.
Lindbergh, who helped turn New Mexico into a regional center for
aviation and rocketry during the interwar years; physicist J.
Robert Oppenheimer, who believed that New Mexico had restored him
to health in the 1920s, and, as a consequence, chose Los Alamos as
the site for the nation's top secret weapons laboratory in 1942;
and first-term congressman Bill Richardson (currently governor),
who inaugurated his skills at compromise by resolving a bitter
environmental dispute in 1984--skills that he would later utilize
on the international stage.
Other essays explore the cultural appeal of the Land of
Enchantment from 1945 to the present, as well as the horrific
ammunition explosion that virtually wiped the hamlet of Tolar, New
Mexico, off the map in 1944.
A final section deals with several southwestern "mysteries,"
including the tale of an itinerant German immigrant who, in 1895,
allegedly healed more than 5,000 people simply by touching them;
and the collapse of Chaco Canyon's Threatening Rock--a 30,000-ton
wall of sandstone that had threatened to destroy the structures of
Pueblo Bonito for over two millennia.
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