News

7-19-2008: Corey Recko was the recipient of the Wild West History Association's 2008 Best Book on Wild West History award for Murder on the White Sands: The Disappearance of Albert Fountain.

7-19-2008: Corey Recko presented the speech "Samuel B. Axtell and the Colfax County War: Axtell's 'Dear Ben' Letter" and the Wild West History Association Roundup in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

7-19-2008: Murder on the White Sands: The Disappearance of Albert and Henry Fountain is now available in paperback.

5-1-2008: Corey Recko's article, "The Life of Pinkerton Operative John C. Fraser" is in the April, 2008 Wild West History Association Journal.

4-8-2008: In ongoing efforts to improve coreyrecko.com, a news section has been added. Other recent additions include historical newspapers reporting the Fountains' disappearance, photographs for sale, and an Oliver Lee biography. Future updates will include pages on Mesilla and Hillsboro, New Mexico, biographies of James Gililland, William McNew, and Ed Brown, and an interactive map of New Mexico.

I have two pieces of recent past news I'd like to report:

1) I have written a biography of Pinkerton operative John C. Fraser that is in the April, 2008 issue of Wild West Magazine.

2) Hardcover copies of Murder on the White Sands are nearly sold out. A paperback edition will be published by the University of North Texas Press in July, 2008.

Murder on the White Sands Reviews; Murder on the White Sands Introduction and First Chapter; Information About Murder on the White Sands (# of pages, table of contents, etc.); Biographies of: Colonel Albert J. Fountain, Pat Garrett, John Fraser, Henry Fountain, Albert B. Fall, Oliver Lee, James Gililland, William McNew, Ed Brown, Thomas Branigan, William H. H. Llewellyn; 1896 Newspaper Accounts of the Fountains' Disappearance; Map of New Mexico Sites; Mesilla, New Mexico; Hillsboro, New Mexico; Search the Index; Buy Murder on the White Sands and Related Photographs; Who do you believe murdered murdered Albert and Henry Fountain? Talk About it in the Forum; Murder on the White Sands Related Articles; Appearances; Links; Author biography; Corey Recko News; Contact coreyrecko@coreyrecko.com

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