David L. Caffey

David L. Caffey has been a teacher and administrator in higher education in Texas and New Mexico. He is a student of New Mexico history and culture and has served on the board of the Historical Society of New Mexico, and as a member and chair of the New Mexico State Library Commission. He is a graduate of the University of Texas at Austin and a doctoral graduate of Texas Tech University. David Caffey is a former chief ranger at Philmont Scout Ranch in northern New Mexico and was director of the Harwood Museum and Library in Taos, New Mexico, from 1982 to 1990. His recent release is a book on the the bloody and contentious 1870s in northern New Mexico and southern Colorado: When Cimarron Meant Wild: The Maxwell Land Grant Conflict in Northern New Mexico and Colorado. The book was published in spring 2023 by the University of Oklahoma Press, and is available in print, digital, and audio formats.