WRITER, COWBOY, RANCHER, miner, and army scout Eugene Manlove Rhodes (1869–1934) is remembered today for little more than coining the phrase “the land of enchantment.” A recent reissue of two of his best novels, Pasó por Aquí and The Desire of the Moth (UNM Press)—both set in the Jornada del Muerto desert basin—should garner Rhodes more latter-day fans. In Pasó (1926), inspired by a 1904 Belén bank robbery, the outlaw hero is pursued by Pat Garrett across the alkali flats and mountains of southern New Mexico, meeting a Mexican family who changes his fate. The Desire of the Moth (1916) is based on the infamous unsolved 1896 disappearance of Albert Jennings Fountain near White Sands. Rhodes’s vivid descriptions of our indelible landscapes still resonate more than a century later.