Octavo. (12)pp. Photoreproductions throughout show sights of New Mexico and samplings of suminagashi patterns. Maurer here recounts several episodes during his travels in New Mexico, including a near-miss of a snake on the road, an observation of a young man at a rest stop, and his witnessing of an explosion somewhere south of Farmington, NM, with a photograph of the aftermath at the book's final page revealing the extent of the disaster: boxes and bags strewn about, busted watermelons and mayonnaise, and two people killed. His burying of the lede here hints at the more famous explosion in Farmington's history, when in 1967 the U. S. Goverment and El Paso Electric set off a nuclear detonation underground. "Project Gasbuggy" was meant to test if such explosions might be useful in fracking. It turns out that neither nuclear explosions nor fracking operations are all that healthy for local communities. Bound in marbled paper wrappers. Fine.