As you have read in earlier posts to this column, although born and raised in El Paso, on the Mexican Border, I was ignorant of the Chinese and Japanese in Mexican history. But I did know about the Mormons. After Utah was annexed by the United States … [Read more...]
The Main Cause of Death in Hollywood!
The main cause of death in Hollywood, they say, is encouragement. I can understand that concern as the encouragement I have received for the film potential of my latest book, “Dos Gringos” has been mounting. But, I don’t consider it … [Read more...]
The El Paso Times reports on “Dos Gringos”
Ramón Rentería of The El Paso Times wrote: “Fred R. Andresen recounts the early life of his Norwegian immigrant father in "Dos Gringos," an action-adventure novella set in El Paso and the ore-rich mountains of Chihuahua in 1916, as the Mexican … [Read more...]
The Next Book– “A Norwegian and an Irishman meet in a Texas bar…”
Based on a true story from The Mexican Revolution In the middle of The Mexican Revolution, a penniless Norwegian and a drifting Irishman meet in an El Paso bar and are hired by a Pittsburg con-man to fix a gold mine in Mexico with parts which, they … [Read more...]