The amount of email and comments regarding Robledo Mountain has been overwhelming to this point. Ideally, I'd like to respond to every one regardless of whether it was an email or comment. I've been spending my time concentrating on the emails but rest assured I've been reading the comments as well.
The preponderance of emails and comments has been so positive it almost makes me blush reading them. Combine that with the number of downloads and the voting and it's almost too much to credit. To have three of my ten favorite SOL authors send positive comments is icing on the cake.
Even the emails and comments questioning facts or decisions I made regarding the story as well as those pointing out the ever frustrating disappearing words and typos were generally positive to the story as a whole.
All that said, I want to clear up a couple of things.
First, I completed Robledo Mountain, in its entirety before I ever started posting it. As long as I'm around and remember to post chapters every Friday there is no reason it will ever go to the incomplete que.
Second, as I was writing Robledo Mountain I kept a list of inaccuracies in the story. Most of these were small items that few readers would catch unless they grew up in the Mesilla Valley or New Mexico. Some, however, were things like when muzzle loaders were replaced by revolvers and lever action rifles, the amount of gold available in New Mexico, the size and shape of Geronimo's Cave, and, yes, even how much a 25 foot trailer will hold as well as where and when tumbleweeds arrived in the southwestern US and many other things.
While TeNderLoin and therev were editing and proofreading my final draft, I took the list, changed the name to FACTS and expanded it. I will post it as a separate page on my website and let you know when the website goes live. In the meantime, I encourage you to continue responding with issues you feel affect the story. I'm sure there are questions on points that I didn't consider in my list of facts.
Rest assured that I will clean up the disappearing words as well as typos and repost the cleaned up chapters as I can. These cleaned up chapters will also include things like changing pistol clips to magazines.
Some things, like tumbleweeds will remain unexplained in Robledo Mountain and the follow-on stories for personal reasons. Some things like the magical trailer will remain unexplained in Robledo Mountain but perhaps explained in one of the follow-on stories - I haven't decided yet.
Please keep those emails and comments, positive or negative, coming. Regardless of what you have to say in them, I treasure every one as either a validation of the story and my growing abilities as a writer or as constructive criticism for use in this and future stories.