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News: Two presentations by authorPaul Cool , presented by the Arizona HistoricalSociety,in Tucson, Nov. 10 & 12, 2011

COLD CASE TUCSON: How Police Dragnets, Citizen Posses, Third-Degree Interrogations, and Crime Scene Forensics Failed to Find the Kidnappers of June Robles.

Thursday, November 10, 2011; Social 5pm; Dinner 6pm; Program 7pm

AHS Arizona History Museum, 949 E. 2nd St., Tucson, AZ 85719

Cost: $20 per person: Reservations and advance payments, by October 28, are requiredand will be taken at the Arizona History Museum front desk. Or you may mail your check, madeout to AHS Docent Council, to Arizona Historical Society,ATTN: Mary Ann Ruelas, 949 E. 2nd St., Tucson, AZ 85719. In case you may beunable to attend, we do appreciate your donation.

Please make your reservations early as seating is limited.

Buried Under Rumors: Fog, Facts, and the Kidnapping of June Robles -- Lecture and Q&A

Saturday, November 12, 2011, 10:30 a.m. - Noon

AHSArizona History Museum, 949 E. 2nd St. , Tucson , AZ 85719 Phone:520-628-5774.

Cost: $15; $13.50 for AHS members.Free parking one block west of the museum in the Arizona Historical Society garage at the northeast corner of E. 2nd St. and N. Euclid Ave. Use the E. 2nd St. entrance.To register or receive more information, contact Mary Ann Ruelas, AHS Education and Outreach Division.Phone:520-617-1154.Email:maruelas@azhs.gov.

News: The Barry M. Goldwater Award for the best paperat the 2011 Arizona History Convention was presented to Paul Cool for"Buried Under Rumors: Fog, Facts, and the Kidnapping of June Robles"

Author: Paul Cool writes aboutthe American Southwest, focusing onpast events along the U.S.-Mexico borderlands that once captured the nation's attention but, despite their continuing relevance,are largely forgotten and misunderstood today.

Salt Warriors: Insurgency on the Rio Grande

The Old Westmeets Gilded Age greed in 1877. The story ofhow the corruption of law and politics and the legal theft of economic resourcesin El Paso ledTejano citizen soldiers to take up arms against Texas Rangers, Buffalo Soldiers,and a posse of outlaws and mercenaries. Salt Warriorswon the Robert A. CalvertBook Prize (2007) andwas nameda Southwest Book ofthe Year for 2008. AVAILABLE ONLINE-- see LINKS

Current Project: The Robles Kidnapping Investigation:

At the height of the Depression-era War on Crime, J. Edgar Hoover's FBI G-men,Tucson and Pima County lawmen,and outraged citizenshuntthe men who abducted a six-year-old child.The 1934 ransom kidnapping ofJuneRoblescreated a nationwide sensation, rivaling the Lindberghcase in itstangled puzzle of mishandled evidence, disputed forensics, conflicting eyewitnesses, dodgy tipsters, large cast of suspicious characters, and media frenzy. When court records were sealed, the dramatic events wereleft torecyclednewspaper articles, folk music, dramatic theater, and 75 years of rumor builtuponrumor. Using newly discovereddocuments, Paul Cool will reveal the 3-year search for the truth behinda mysteriouscrime that once transfixed America.

The author

Cool earned Bachelor and Juris Doctor degreesat the University of San Francisco and served as a Captain in the U.S. Army Reserve. His previous work has appeared in Wild West magazine, Texas Rangers' Dispatch, theJournal of Big Bend Studies, the WWHA Journal, NOLA Quarterly,and WOLA Journal.He is a member of Western Writers of America, Wild West History Association,ArizonaHistorical Society,San Elizario Genealogical and Historical Society, and19th Bombardment Association.

Hisfather, Colonel Paul E. Cool, piloted heavy bombers without fighter escortinthe7th and 19th Bombardment Groups, earning the Silver Star with Oak Leaf Cluster, theDistinguished Flying Cross, the Air Medal, and thePurple Heart. His mother Anne wasanurse's aide in London during the Battle of Britain, and was wounded in theBlitz.

Salt Warriors cover art by Bob Boze Bell

Future Projects include...

* 1880: Cow-Boy lawlessness along the borderlands of Arizona,Sonora, New Mexico, and Chihuaha