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Books

• Salt Warriors: Insurgency on the Rio Grande,          Texas A&M University Press (2008) 

• Revenge! And Other True Tales of the Old West, ScarletMask Books (2004)   (co-authored, with John Boessenecker, Robert K. DeArment, Allen G. Hatley, David Johnson, Chuck Parsons, and Nancy B. Samuelson; Foreward by Frederick W. Nolan)  Out-of-Print

Articles (a sample) 

•  Buried Under Rumors: Fog, Facts, and the Kidnapping of June Robles -- Winner, Barry M. Goldwater Award for the Best Paper presented at the Arizona History Conference, Yuma, 2011 

•  "San Elizario Salt War," Wikipedia.com (article online but under construction), 2009

• "With Two Well-Placed Shots, Ludwick Put Outlaws on Notice," Wild West magazine, February 2009 

• "My Men Are All Frontiersmen: El Paso's Tejano Texas Rangers in the 1870s," Texas Rangers Hall of Fame and Museum online journal, Dispatch, Issue 26, Summer 2008"When Newspaper Editors Go Bad: The Murder of Tom Mode," NOLA Quarterly, 2007

• "Billy Breakenridge: Buying Scalps from Sand Creek," WOLA Journal 2006

• "The El Paso Salt War: A Review of the Historical Literature," Journal of Big Bend Studies, Vol. 17, 2005

• "Bob Martin: Rustler in Paradise," WOLA Journal 2003

• "Escape of a Highwayman: The Riddle of Sherman McMaster," at tombstonehistoryarchives.com

• "The Puzzling J.A. Tays," Texas Rangers Hall of Fame and Museum Dispatch, Issue 7, 2002

Book Reviews

• Texas Devils by Michael L. Collins, Wild West History Association Journal (2009)

• Death of a Gunfighter, by Dan Rottenberg, WWHA Journal (2009)

• The Civil War in Arizona: The Story of the California Volunteers, by Andrew E. Masich, WWHA Journal, 1:4, 2008

• Desert Desperadoes, by Bob Alexander, NOLA Quarterly 2007

Talks and Panels:

• Buried Under Rumors: Fog, Facts, and the Kidnapping of June Robles -- Arizona History Convention

• The Nine Lives of John Kinney - Wild West History Association

• The El Paso Salt War-Big Bend Conference

• The O.K. Corral on Film - 125th Anniversary, Tombstone Ariz.

• Three Gunfights You Never Heard Of -Nat'lOutlawLawmanAsso

• The U.S. Army and the Arizona Cow-boys-Tombstone Rendev'z

• When Newspaper Editors Go Bad: The Murder of Tom Moad