1. ABQJOURNAL VENUE/BOOKS: Outlaw Cowboys

Sunday, May 10, 2009 Outlaw Cowboys By Review By Fritz Thompson           "Cowboy Park Steer Roping Contests on the Border" by John O. Baxter         Texas Tech University Press, $24.95, 236 pp.         There was a time in Territorial New Mexico — 104 years ago, in fact — when rodeo-style ...
full story 05/09/09

2. ABQJOURNAL VENUE/BOOKS: Hero Emerges From Mists of N.M. History

Sunday, September 28, 2008 Hero Emerges From Mists of N.M. History By Review By Fritz Thompson           "¡Viva Elfego! The Case for Elfego Baca, Hispanic Hero" by Stan Sager         Sunstone Press, $24.95, 279 pp.         In the fall of 1884, a 19-year-old store clerk named Elfego Baca proclaimed ...
full story 09/27/08

3. ABQJOURNAL VENUE/BOOKS: The Mustang Endures as a True American Icon Despite Man’s Best Efforts to Wipe Them Out

Sunday, June 15, 2008 The Mustang Endures as a True American Icon Despite Man’s Best Efforts to Wipe Them Out By Fritz Thompson       “Mustang: The Saga of the Wild Horse in the American West” by Deanne Stillman     Houghton Mifflin, $25, 384 pp.         They returned to the New World in the company ...
full story 06/14/08

4. ABQjournal Books: Apache Leader's Legend Grows Under Close Study

Sunday, December 2, 2007 Apache Leader's Legend Grows Under Close Study By Reviews by Fritz Thompson     "Victorio" by Kathleen P. Chamberlain     University of Oklahoma Press, $24.95, 272 pp.     "Avenging Victorio" by Dave DeWitt     Rio Grande Books, $24.95, 258 pp.     Fifteen years after the end ...
full story 12/02/07

5. ABQjournal: Writer Examines Mystery

Sunday, June 10, 2007 Writer Examines Mystery By Fritz Thompson .     Of all the mysteries in New Mexico history, none is so enduring and so enigmatic as the unsolved disappearance of Col. Albert Jennings Fountain and his young son, Henry, on a blustery February afternoon in 1896.     Traveling southwest ...
full story 06/09/07

6. ABQjournal: 'Endless Ride' Follows the Paper Trail of N.M.'s Favorite Outlaw

Sunday, March 18, 2007 'Endless Ride' Follows the Paper Trail of N.M.'s Favorite Outlaw By Fritz Thompson .     Billy the Kid was shot dead 125 years ago, and ever since then a seemingly equal number of books and films have been made about the Old West's most enduring desperado.     Comes now yet another ...
full story 03/17/07

7. ABQjournal: Rider/Writer Delivers Solid Rodeo Lowdown

Sunday, August 20, 2006 Rider/Writer Delivers Solid Rodeo Lowdown By Fritz Thompson .     People who hail from, say Hoboken, N.J., and who have been no farther west than the Delaware River, much less the Mississippi, now have a chance to pass themselves off as rodeo aficionados.     Albuquerque freelance ...
full story 08/19/06

8. ABQjournal: Book Retells the Horrors of Pancho Villa's Brutal 1916 Raid on a New Mexico Border Town

Sunday, July 30, 2006 Book Retells the Horrors of Pancho Villa's Brutal 1916 Raid on a New Mexico Border Town By Review by Fritz Thompson     "The General and the Jaguar" by Eileen Welsome     Little, Brown, $25.95, 403 pp.         Just before Pancho Villa's battered and depleted revolutionary army ...
full story 07/29/06

9. ABQjournal: Bio Recalls Complexities of Frank Springer

Sunday, June 4, 2006 Bio Recalls Complexities of Frank Springer By Fritz Thompson .     Although the activities of renegade outlaws and rugged settlers occupied the frontier attention in Cimarron in the 1870s, the arrival of cultured, no-nonsense Iowa attorney Frank Springer caused ripples.     Against ...
full story 06/03/06

10. ABQjournal: Learn the Frontier Story of The JAL 'Brand' Of Ranching

Sunday, February 5, 2006 Learn the Frontier Story of The JAL 'Brand' Of Ranching By Fritz Thompson .     Plenty of stove-up cowboys and grizzled ranch managers have written books in recent decades, all lamenting the death of old-time cattle-growing and how things used to be and are no longer.     So ...
full story 02/04/06