Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: A great first person narrative of life on the New Mexico frontier

A movie (McKenna's Gold) was made from just one chapter in this book. James McKenna went west as a young man first working in the Colorado gold fields and then moving down to the strikes in Southwest New Mexico. Much of the book reads like campfire yarns that are humorous, historical, and interesting. Very enjoyable.Evidently, James kept a diary from the time he left home until he retired and then, with the help of others, tried to organize his diaries into a book. So some of the chronology and some of the geographics seem blurred. But the humor, slang, and historical anecdotes of the times are priceless.