BOOKS

	2004 CIVIL WAR AND REVOLUTION ON RIO GRANDE FRONTIER:A NARRATIVE AND PHOTOGRAPHIC HISTORY, Texas State Historical Association.
	2001 Ed., TEXAS AND NEW MEXICO ON THE EVE OF THE CIVIL WAR: THE MANSFIELD AND JOHNSTON INSPECTIONS, 1859-1861, University of New Mexico Press.
	2001 Ed. CIVIL WAR IN THE SOUTHWEST: RECOLLECTIONS OF THE SIBLEY BRIDGE, Texas A&M University Press.
	2001 Ed., THE CIVIL WAR IN WEST TEXAS AND NEW MEXICO: THE LOST LETTERBOOK OF BRIGADIER GENERAL HENRY HOPKINS SIBLEY, (with John P. Wilson,) Texas Western Press.
	1997 A WILD AND VIVID LAND: AN ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF THE SOUTH TEXAS BORDER, Texas State Historical Association, Austin.
	1997 Ed., FIFTY MILES AND A FIGHT: SAMUEL PETER HEINTZELMAN'S JOURNAL OF TEXAS AND THE CORTINA WAR, Texas State Historical Association, Austin.
	1997 CAMPFIRES AND COAL DUST ON THE RIO GRANDE (with A. Joaquim McGraw), Texas Department of Transportation, Austin.
	1996 Ed., INTO THE FAR, WILD COUNTRY: TRUE TALES OF THE OLD SOUTHWEST, Texas Western Press, El Paso.
	1994 JUAN NEPOMUCENO CORTINA AND THE TEXAS-MEXICO FRONTIER, 1859-1877, Texas Western Press, El Paso.
	1992 DESERT TIGER: PADDY GRAYDON AND THE CIVIL WAR IN THE FAR SOUTHWEST, Texas Western Press, El Paso.
	1991 WARM WEATHER AND BAD WHISKEY: THE 1886 LAREDO ELECTION RIOT, Texas Western Press, El Paso.
	1991 Ed., FROM DESERT TO BAYOU: THE CIVIL WAR JOURNAL AND SKETCHES OF MORGAN WOLFE MERRICK, Texas Western Press, El Paso.
	1990 Ed., WESTWARD THE TEXANS: THE CIVIL WAR JOURNAL OF PRIVATE WILLIAM RANDOLPH HOWELL, Texas Western Press, El Paso.
	1987 HENRY HOPKINS SIBLEY: CONFEDERATE GENERAL OF THE WEST, Northwestern State University Press, Natchitoches. Reprinted by Texas A&M University Press, 1996.
	1986 CHALLENGE AND TRIUMPH: THE FIRST 20 YEARS OF LAREDO STATE UNIVERSITY, Laredo State University, Laredo.
	1986, 1992 MEXICAN TEXANS IN THE UNION ARMY, Texas Western Press, El Paso.
	1986 LAREDO: A PICTORIAL HISTORY, Donning Publishers, Norfolk.
	1976 VAQUEROS IN BLUE AND GRAY: MEXICAN TEXANS IN THE CIVIL WAR, Presidia Press, Austin. Reprinted by Statehouse Books, Austin, 1998.
	1974 SABERS OF THE RIO GRANDE, Presidial Press, Austin.
	1971 JOHN ROBERT BAYLOR: TEXAS INDIAN FIGHTER AND CONFEDERATE SOLDIER, Hill College Press, Hillsboro.