Category Texas History

An Interview with author Julia Robb

December 30, 2015 · by · in About Writing, American West History, Native American, Ranald Mackenzie, Red River Wars, Texas History · 2 Comments

Author Julia Robb has just released her fourth historical novel (previous titles are Saint of the Burning Heart, Del Norte, and Scalp Mountain). This one, The Captive Boy, is about the U.S. Army and the 1870s war with the Comanches. But it’s really about the fictional Colonel McKenna and his relationship with August Schiltz, a […]

A TIME MACHINE

August 19, 2014 · by · in About Writing, Bat Masterson, Fort Worth Stockyards, Living History, Living in the Past, Old west reenactors, Reenacting, Research, Texas History, Texas reenactors · 8 Comments

Many of the reenactors I’ve talked to credit the 1950s and 60s television shows and movies with igniting their passion for the Old West and its characters. In the case of El Paso native Jerry Eastman, he had the added incentive of family lore which claimed they were related to Bat Masterson (William Bartholomew (Barclay) […]