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Mrs. Benton Mosley
Lovington, N. Mex.
5-25-36. 350
IOGRAPHY
May Price Mosley: Born in Midland, Texas, eldest daug-
hter of Mr. and Mrs. Eugene H. Price, who at that time
made their home on the Quinn raLch in Terry County,Texas.
Mrs. Mosley was the child in that county for some time,
and her mother often the only woman. The family first
moved into what is now Lea County (N. Mex.) in 1896, moving
to th3 old E Ranch, which was located some twenty miles
northeast of where Lovington mow is; and since that date
this section has been home to her most of the time.
"Education," writes Mrs. Mcsley," in those days and cir-
cumstances, was necessarily a very fragmentary affair and
mine acquired by an especially patchy process." She learn-
ed her letters reading the various brands on cattle that
drank at the ranch water trough during open range. Later,
her parents usually managed to sandwich in a year's
schooling (far away fromhome) for her,between each year
of home study. So much alone-ness made of her an omniv-
orous reader. And so much reaaing seems early to have
given her the desire to put the urama of life into written
words. "Leisure,"she ueclares, "wa:-,, the only thing on
the ranch of which there was plenty." She had two years
at a fresh water college, but spent most of her time while
there on music.