Hoyo de Manzanares surrounded by mountains and fields of land that give the town a beautiful view. The only way to arrive in Hoyo de Manzanares from the city of Madrid, is through the M-618 highway that bisects the regional park, passing the nearby towns of Torrelodones, Colemenar Viejo and lastly Hoyo de Manzanares. Lots of evidence has been found of ancient life in this small town, but it wasn’t until the Middle Ages that life had been actually documented in this particular district of Madrid. After the Reconquista, Hoyo de Manzanares was quickly repopulated by Moriscos, Philistines, Segovians and of course Madridians.
A River Runs Through It (novel) still in print a hardcover edition issued in Chicago by the University of Chicago Press in 1989 with . The collection of short stories with the novella, "A River Runs Through It and Other Stories" is issued as a paperback by the University of Chicago Press in 2003 with . The small anthology contains two other stories, also partly autobiographical and which precede the events of "River": "Logging and Pimping and 'Your pal, Jim'" and "USFS 1919: The Ranger, the Cook, and a Hole in the Sky". During 1977 the Pulitzer Prize committee for fiction (aka "fiction jury") recommended "A