Tony Hillerman's Indian Country Map and Guide

Mancos, CO: Time Traveler Maps, 1998. First Edition. Pictorial Map [61 cm x 91 cm] / [24" x 36"] printed in full-color. Folds as issued. This illustrated map and guide that follows Leaphorn & Chee in their first thirteen mysteries set in the heart of Indian Country in the American Southwest. Each plot location is numbered with a book icon. Peter Thorpe, the designer of the jackets of the popular book series, illustrates this excellent map.

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 being wounded. After the war he attended the University of Oklahoma and worked as a journalist, eventually becoming editor of the New Mexican. In 1963 he went to graduate school at the University of New Mexico and joined the journalism faculty there 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 dozens of widely acclaimed works, most were bestsellers. This is the third published novel by Hillerman in the Leaphorn and Chee series. Joe Leaphorn mystery set in the northern Navajo reservation.