The Narrow Gauge Book Cooperative is pleased to announce that Ken Salazar
will be in store for a book talk and signing on August 1st at 11am.
The event begins at 11am, with remarks from Adams State University President David Tandberg, followed by a talk from Ken Salazar and a book signing for his book Borderlands: My Fight for an Inclusive America There will be time for brief interviews with the press at the event.
About the Author:
Ken Salazar is a fifth generation Coloradan, whose ancestors have lived in the American Southwest for over four centuries. Ken grew up in his native San Luis Valley on the remote Salazar homestead, where his family continues to farm and ranch the same property they’ve owned since before Colorado became a state. Ken served as United States ambassador to Mexico from 2021 to 2025, as US secretary of the Interior under President Barack Obama (2009–2013), as Colorado’s 35th US senator (2005–2009), and as Colorado state attorney general (1999-2005). Ken devotes much of his time to family and ranching in the San Luis Valley. He continues to be a champion for conservation, civil rights, and an inclusive America.
About the Book:
Informed by his life journey, former U.S. Ambassador to Mexico, U.S. Senator, and U.S. Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar shares his unrivaled vantage on the U.S.-Mexico relationship, the border and migration crisis, and his belief that the diversity of our many communities and cultures is America’s superpower.
Borderlands is a clarion call for a different way forward, one that unites North America instead of divides it. It invites you to come and see the prairies, deserts, and mountains, and feel the history and culture of our peoples. Come and meet your neighbors. Come and witness the strength of American diversity for yourself. Like many Mexican Americans, the Salazars have deep roots in the American Southwest. They have ranched and farmed along the banks of the Rio Grande for more than four centuries, and have called the San Luis Valley home since the end of the Mexican-American War in 1848.
Borderlands traces the relationship of the United States and Mexico from its early days to the present. Framed by Donald Trump’s attacks on American diversity, Ken recounts the early conflicts between our two countries; the treaties that created our modern and broken border; the political malpractice of both major U.S. parties where it concerns migration and the border; and the necessity to fight for an inclusive and united America.
