02.18.10: Nancy Coggeshall - Gila Country Legend

Thu, 02/18/2010 - 7:00pm

If there was ever a 'ring-tailed roarer' of the backwoods of New Mexico, he was Quentin Hulse, who lived and worked most of his life in the Gila River country of southwestern New Mexico - but his reputation spread far and wide.  Hulse led a lion hunt, witnessed a point-blank shooting, and appeared on a tourist postcard and souvenir license plate in the 1950s.  With compassion, Nancy Coggeshall tells the compelling biography of a rural western rancher constantly adjusting to the inroads of modernity in his traditional way of life.  She brings this unique westerner, and New Mexican to life.

Gila Country Legend: The Life and Times of Quentin Hulse (Hardcover)

By Nancy Coggeshall
$29.95
ISBN-13: 9780826348241
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: University of New Mexico Press, 10/01/2009
Location: 
Bookworks Bookworks
4022 Rio Grande Blvd NW#Flying Star Pla
Albuquerque, New Mexico 87107-3157

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