Gila Country Legend
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Gila Country Legend is a gem of study and observation. For fans of western individualism it's a benchmark for how much ground we've lost.
- Tom McGuane, author of Gallatin Canyon
Gila Country Legend
The Life and Times of Quentin Hulse
“I have now read and totally enjoyed Gila Country Legend ….You have revealed [Quentin Hulse] as one of the most interesting complex major characters in New Mexican history to live in the last hundred years.”
- Howard R. Lamar, author of Charlie Siringo’s West and editor of The New Encyclopedia of the American West .
“Nancy Coggeshall’s Gila Country Legend is a multi-faceted work: part biography, part geographical study, part autumnal love story....
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A Rhode Islander by birth, Nancy Coggeshall began writing billet-douxs and long letters to penpals in Finland, Scotland, and Jamaica as a girl. At the University of Rhode Island, she studied with Nancy Potter (We Have Seen the Beset of Our Times and Legacies) and later taught high school English in Toronto.