Research and Creative Activity
Peer-Reviewed and Journal Articles

January 2026
Surveying the Capitol Land Reservation in Texas
Southwestern Historical Quarterly CXXIX, no. 3 (January 2026): 335–364

2025
‘Opportunity Knocking’: The Vaughan Land Company and Early Bailey County Development
Panhandle-Plains Historical Review 96 (2025): 40–65

2019
A Spring Sprung It: Tracing and Understanding the True Genesis of North America’s Longest River
Journal of the West 58, no. 3 (2019): 6–21

2018
Maps and Newspapers in the Southwest Collection
Archivation Exploration 3, no. 2 (2018)
Notes and Shorter Contributions
Magazines and Trade Publications




Southwestern Archivist 42, no. 1 (February 2019)
Unusual Annotations in Stephen F. Austin’s 1835 Map of Texas Tell Early Texas History
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Newspaper Columns
Lubbock Avalanche-Journal, November 29, 2024
Albert Pike and His Journey to Ransom Canyon
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Lubbock Avalanche-Journal, January 28, 2024
The Sharps Rifle, Buffalo Hunting, and the South Plains
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Lubbock Avalanche-Journal, September 2, 2017
Accounts Vary on Location of 1877 Battle of Yellow House Canyon
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Book Chapters
Caprock Chronicles: More Tales of the Llano Estacado, The History Press, 2021