TONY HILLERMAN’S INDIAN COUNTRY MAP AND GUIDE...FEATURING LOCATIONS AND DESCRIPTIONS FROM 13 HILLERMAN MYSTERIES INCLUDING “THE FIRST EAGLE”
(Tony Hillerman) Thorpe, Peter. TONY HILLERMAN’S INDIAN COUNTRY MAP AND GUIDE...FEATURING LOCATIONS AND DESCRIPTIONS FROM 13 HILLERMAN MYSTERIES INCLUDING “THE FIRST EAGLE” Mancos, Co. Time Traveler Maps. 1998. 1st. Pictorial map opening to 24 x 36 inches.
Follow the adventures of Leaphorn and Chee through their first 13 mysteries set in the heart of the American Southwest Indian Country. Peter Thorpe, the designer of the book jackets seconds as the illustrator of the map thru placing a book icon at each plots location.
Tony Hillerman (1928-2008) was born and raised in Sacred Heart, Oklahoma. He joined the US Army in 1943 and won the Silver Star, the Bronze Star with Oak Leaf Cluster and the Purple Heart. After the war he attended the University of Oklahoma and worked as a journalist, eventually becoming editor of the New Mexican. In 1963 he attended graduate school at the University of New Mexico and joined the journalism faculty in 1966. His first Navajo mystery, THE BLESSING WAY, was published in 1970. Over the next thirty-plus years he would go on to publish over 30 books of which 18 were part of the Navajo series, beginning with THE BLESSING WAY in 1970 and ending with THE SHAPE SHIFTER in 2006. His daughter Ann Hillerman would continue the series in 2013 with the publishing of SPIDER WOMEN’S DAUGHTER. Hillerman is considered one of New Mexico's foremost novelists.
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