James Stephen PetersJAMES S. PETERS was born in Wyandotte, Michigan in 1930. In the mid-1940s his family moved to California where at sixteen he enlisted in the Army Air Corps and served three years as a medic. Later he spent ten years in the Navy as a photographer and n 1964 he alighted in Taos, New Mexico and developed an avid interest in Southwestern American history. After living in Santa Fe and Albuquerque, he continued researching and writing articles on the frontier West. After retiring, he pursued his interests in writing and painting. He now lives in Colorado. This is his first work of creative nonfiction. He is also the author of "Headless in Taos: The Dark Fated Tale of Arthur Rockford Manby" and "Sadakichi Hartmann, Alien Son: A Biography," both from Sunstone Press. Read More Read Less