Rafael Manzanares Aguilar typical folk dance with a jocular character is "El Zopilote", inspired by flying and walking characteristics of the buzzard, commonly seen in Honduras. This dance was compiled by Professor Manzanares in the city of Yuscarán, department of El Paraiso, and it was choreographed and initially interpreted by the Cuadro Nacional de Danzas Folklóricas. In 1997 Rafael Manzanares was the Liberal Party mayoral candidate for Tegucigalpa, in an election that he lost to the National Party Candidate, Doctor Cesar Castellanos Madrid. In 1998, during the presidential administration of Carlos Roberto Flores, he was appointed minister of the Secretary of State for
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