His first book-length foray into the state's history was Murder on the White Sands: The Disappearance of Albert and Henry Fountain (University of North Texas Press, 2008).

For Colorado readers: “When Cimarron Meant Wild” and more regional books David L. Caffey‘s diligent research helps establish the Colfax County War as one of Western history’s major conflicts ...

An etching of Black families gathering the dead after the Colfax Massacre published in Harper's Weekly, May 10, 1873 Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons. The Reconstruction period that followed ...

Author Corey Recko takes us back to a largely forgotten conflict in his latest book, The Colfax County War: Violence and Corruption in Territorial New Mexico.

Aug. 30—In September 1875, the body of Methodist minister Franklin J. Tolby was found off the road between Elizabethtown and Cimarron, which sits on the eastern slope of the Sangre de Cristo ...