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Author, historian, filmmaker, producer, actor, screenwriter, playwright, and travel writer. Associate Producer of the 2019 documentary film "The Wonder of the Century," based on the author's book on Giovanni Maria de Agostini, an Eighteenth Century world traveler. Co-founder of the Pat Garrett Western Heritage Festival and the Friends of Pat Garrett.

2019 Best Book Awards Finalist in the History: United States category for "Killing Pat Garrett, The Wild West's Most Famous Lawman - Murder Or Self-Defense." 2019 Royal Dragonfly Book Award Winner, Second Place, Historical Non-Fiction for "Killing Pat Garrett," 2019 Best Indie Book Notable 100 Award Winner for "Killing Pat Garrett."

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	Billy the Kid's Grave: A History of the Wild West's Most Famous Death Marker (Mesilla Valley History, #4) 4.09 avg rating — 22 ratings — published 2017 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Giovanni Maria de Agostini, Wonder of the Century: The Astonishing World Traveler Who Was a Hermit (Mesilla Valley History Series, #2) 3.92 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 2015 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Killing Pat Garrett, The Wild West's Most Famous Lawman - Murder or Self-Defense? (Mesilla Valley History, #5) 4.45 avg rating — 11 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	La Posta - From the Founding of Mesilla, to Corn Exchange Hotel, to Billy the Kid Museum, to Famous Landmark (Mesilla Valley History Series, #1) 3.92 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 2013 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Trial of Billy the Kid (Mesilla Valley History Series, #7) 4.57 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2021 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Frank W. Angel Report on the Death of John H. Tunstall 4.75 avg rating — 4 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Stolen Pinkerton Reports of the Colonel Albert J. Fountain Murder Investigation (Mesilla Valley History, #6) 4.25 avg rating — 4 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	“Dirty Dave” Rudabaugh, Billy the Kid’s Most Feared Companion (Mesilla Valley History Series) 3.75 avg rating — 4 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Screen with a Voice - A History of Moving Pictures in Las Cruces, New Mexico (Mesilla Valley History, #3) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Incident at Ple Tonan, An Imperial Japanese War Crime and the Fate of U.S. Navy Airmen in French Indochina 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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The Fight for Compensation for the Murder of John H. Tunstall

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The Fight for Compensation for the Murder of John H. Tunstall

The sadistic murder of John Henry Tunstall is remembered for the violence it unleashed and for the emergence of figures later mythologized in the American West: Billy the Kid (William Henry McCarty) and Patrick “Pat” F. Garrett.

But Tunstall’s killing did not

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When Women Ruled the World: Six Queens of Egypt

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Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI

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“Every day we slaughter our finest moments.”
― Henry Valentine Miller

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“Excitement is simple: excitement is a situation, a single event. It mustn't be wrapped up in thoughts, similes, metaphors. A simile is a form of reflection, but excitement is of the moment when there is no time to reflect. Action can only be expressed by a subject, a verb and an object, perhaps rhythm -- little else. Even an adjective slows the pace or tranquilizes the nerve.”
― Graham Greene

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“A novel is an interminable effort. You think until you are weary. You write until you are ready to scream. You stop. You rest. But you have to get back to it. You have to pick up the threads, revive your enthusiasm, recapture the mood.”
― Frank Gruber, The Pulp Jungle

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“By living, thinking, even dreaming the story in one continuous process, ideas came faster and faster. Sometimes the typewriter keys would fly so fast that I wondered if my fingers could keep up with them. And at the finish of the story I often had to take a few days off as my fingertips were too sore to begin work on the next book.”
― Walter B Gibson

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