Within Sound of the Bugle

Priestley, Lee

ISBN 10: 1881325180 / ISBN 13: 9781881325185

Published by Yucca Tree Press, Las Cruces, NM, 1996

About this Item

76pp.incl.index; SC yellow w/blue; fine condition w/clean,tight pgs. "Based on actual events and incidents of mid-19th century Dona Ana County. " illus. signed. also signed by subject.

Seller Inventory # 038077

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Within Sound of the Bugle
• Publisher: Yucca Tree Press, Las Cruces, NM
• Publication Date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1881325180
• ISBN 13: 9781881325185
• Binding: Paper Back
• Illustrator: Peterson, Marquita
• Edition: First Printing
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket
• Signed: Signed & Inscribed By Author
• Seller catalogs:
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About this title

Synopsis

Lee Priestley's delightful collection of 'Hearsay History' presents another perspective on how life was lived at frontier forts during New Mexico's Territorial period. The stories are based upon actual incidents and individuals.

About the Author

Lee Priestley was born in Kansas, educated in Oklahoma, and resided for many years in Louisiana and New Mexico. She is the author of numerous novels and picture books and more than a thousand short stories. Much of her work has southwestern settings and characters. She lives in Las Cruces, New Mexico, and has taught creative writing at the University of Oklahoma and New Mexico State University.

Marquita Peterson is a native New Mexican who has studied art in Texas, Oregon and Iadho. Her works in oil, water color and ink are in private and corporate collections throughout the country. She teaches art classes in oil, water color and creative drawing in Albuquerque, New Mexico, where she now makes her home. Her current emphasis is on historical southern subjects. Her "Southwest Legacies" series of sepia ink drawings is reconstructed from tintypes and archival photos from the Lincoln County War era.