J. S. Peters was born in Lincoln Park, 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 a...ver maisJ. S. Peters was born in Lincoln Park, 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. He later spent ten years in the Navy as a photographer. In 1964 he alighted in Taos, New Mexico as a bartender, where he developed an interest in Southwestern history. In Santa Fe and Alburquerque, then Denver, he pursued his interest in writing and painting.ver menos