Gila Country Legend: The Life and Times of Quentin Hulse
Winner of the New Mexico Book Co-op’s 2010 Award for First Book
Finalist for the Co-op’s Award for Biography
One of the Tucson-Pima County Library’s
“Notable Books of the Year 2009” for Southwest book lovers!
Honorable Mention for the New Mexico Press Women’s Award 2012 History/Biography
“Gila Country Legend is a gem of study and observation. For fans of western individualism it is a benchmark for how much ground we have lost.”
–Tom McGuane, author of Driving the Rim and Cloudbursts
[Quentin Hulse is revealed] “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. That the book succeeds at each, knitting together a fascinating portrait of the West and drawn in even readers unfamiliar with its southwestern New Mexico setting, speaks to the knowledge and talent of the author and the powerful draw of her subject, the mercurial cowboy Quentin Hulse.”
–Jennifer Howard in The Bloomsbury Review
“Author Nancy Coggeshall animates not just one (extremely interesting) man in this book, but a hidden region of the country, its character and characters….This is one compelling, fascinating story about a man and his world. It’s a beautiful story, too, about a courageous, unique woman who fell in love with Quentin and his domain, and had the scruples to understand it all was special.”
–Douglas Brown, author of Let’s Do It
“This Quentin ain’t quaint. He’s quintessential.”
–Walter Piehl, Jr., painter of Western Americana