Stanley T. Noyes

The French Comanche

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Produktbeschreibung

A boy's tutor retells his search for the boy for seven years after he is kidnapped by the Comanches in this historical novel set in the late 1700s.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Sunstone Press
• Seitenzahl: 298
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. März 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 254mm x 178mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 522g
• ISBN-13: 9781632932570
• ISBN-10: 1632932571
• Artikelnr.: 55765340

Autorenporträt

Stanley T. Noyes grew up in California and was a writer, educator, and art's administrator. During World War II, he served in the U.S. Army in the Ruhr campaign in a reconnaissance troop. They crossed the Rhine ahead of U.S. forces and later liberated slave labor camps. He was awarded the Bronze Star. When he returned he attended the University of California, Berkeley where he met and married fellow student Nancy Black in 1949 and earned his B.A. and M.A. degrees. For sport he rode bareback horses and bulls in rodeos in California and Nevada. Later Stan taught college at Cal extension and California College of the Arts. He lived in France with his family for about six years. They moved to Santa Fe in 1964 and he taught at the College of Santa Fe, and briefly at the University of New Mexico. He later was a program director for the New Mexico Arts Division. Stan was a published author of poetry, fiction, and non-fiction, notably "Los Comanches, The Horse People, 1751-1845," a history of the Comanche Indians now from Sunstone Press in a new edition. Noyes was an avid hiker in the mountains of New Mexico often accompanied by his wolf hybrids. He spent many summers hiking the Pyrenees with his family and close French and Spanish friends.