The horse's hooves rhythmically tap the unpaved dirt road, harness jingling harmony to the bees busily looting alfalfa blossoms. A loose board rattles on the conveyance that resembles a spring wagon in a Western movie. The small girl, face hidden by the ...

It’s been nearly a century since pacifist Mennonites fled Russia for the plains of western Canada, immigrating later to northern Mexico to turn some of its arid high desert into model productive farms. The Mennonites, the men in their overalls and straw ...