“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

“This Quentin ain’t quaint. He’s quintessential.”
–Walter Piehl, Jr., painter of Western Americana

[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

“Quentin Hulse braided his life so tightly to the Gila Country that to read this haunting biography and memoir is to learn an entire history of a remarkable land and one of its most colorful figures.”
-Louis Warren, author of Buffalo Bill’s America and The Hunter’s Game

“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

“The title of this book, while to the point, is misleading because the story told is much more than the biography of a cowman. It is, more accurately, the story of a late-life relationship, spiced with tales of New Mexico rancher and guide Quentin Hulse, his country, and his friends.” >> Read the full review
-Harley Shaw, The Journal of Arizona History, Vol. 51, No. 3 (autumn 2010), pp. 293-294

“I didn’t know the man well. But his reputation preceded him wherever he went in southwest New Mexico. And portions of his personality had rough, or engaging edges — depending on the occasion — that left an impression even after a cursory encounter.” >> Read the full review
-Dutch Salmon, Las Cruces Sun News

“Writer Nancy Coggeshall grew up in what she calls the “demi-monde” of 1950s Narrangansett where, as a teen-age waitress at a coffee shop she encountered the town’s colorful characters.” >> Read the full review
-John Pantalone, University of Rhode Island Magazine

“Although the period of this book is outside the usual time frame of the evolution of the West for EWS
studies, it relates the story of a typical, yet perhaps larger-than-life Western character who lived in and
loved the wild, remote and sparsely populated Gila River country with its huge surrounding wilderness of
the Gila National Forest of south-western New Mexico.” >> Read the full review
-Raymond Cox, EWS-Book Review, newsletter for Westerners International Posse in Great Britain

“Book tells of legendary outdoorsman” >> Read the full review
-Marc Simmons, The New Mexican

“If a man becomes legendary through the number of stories told about him, then Quentin Hulse, a New Mexico guide, hunter, rancher, and tale-teller, certainly qualifies.” >> Read the full review
-Tom Clagget, New Mexico Magazine

“Quentin Hulse (1926-2002) was such a model of a 20th century New Mexico rancher-hunter that his
likeness appeared on tourist postcards and souvenir license plates in the 1950s.” >> Read the full review
-Dale L. Walker, Roundup Magazine, Western Bookshelf Nonfiction

“Seven-year-old Quentin Hulse moved in 1933 to the bottom of Canyon Creek, a remote area in the Gila National Forest.” >>> Read the full review
-Tanya Finchum, Southwestern Historical Quarterly

“Please pass this on to Nancy Coggeshall> ”I am  a working cowboy myself, and she’s not only a first class writer, but one Hell of a storyteller. She has written what may be the finest contemporary book on rural cowboy life I have ever had the pleasure of reading.” >> Read the full review
-James Wright, Wild West History Association Journal

Stirring, moving book >> Read the full review
-Douglas Brown, author of Let’s Do It, Amazon

“Quentin Hulse was an old-time Catron County cow rancher, packer, hound man, lion hunter, and Mogollon Mountain oral historian.” >> Read the full review
-David Remley, The Glenwood Gazette

“He was 70. She was 55. He was an old-time New Mexico rancher, guide, outfitter, hunter,
storyteller, oral historian, ladies’ man, drunk, emotional cripple and World War II veteran. She
was a patrician New England horsewoman, educated, well-traveled—someone who traced her
ancestors back to the Revolutionary War.” >> Read the full review
-Jon Schumaker, Tucson Weekly

“I wish I had known Quentin Hulse. The marker on the plaque mounted on a cross made of rebar, standing on a hill overlooking Canyon Creek near the Gila Wilderness, identifies him as a ‘Houndsman, Cowman, Hunter-Cowboy’.” >> Read the full review
-James Hoy, New Mexico Historical Review