James Bailey Blackshear

UPCOMING NEW RELEASES!

I have a chapter in the anthology Los Llaneros: The Mexican Southern Plains 1500-1900 by OU Press coming out in June 2026

Winter of 2027: I have an historical fiction that focuses on Billy the Kid and Lew Wallace's interactions in Lincoln coming out in Jan 2027. Few people realize they lived next door to each other for three weeks. Look early next year for THREE WEEKS ON THE PRETTY RIVER

Stoney Creek Press

Honor and Defiance: The History of the Las Vegas Land Grant in New Mexico published 2013 Sunstone Press

Fort Bascom: Soldiers, Comancheros and Indians in the Canadian River Valley published 2016 OU Press

Confederates and Comancheros: Skullduggery and Double Dealing in the Texas New Mexico Borderlands published 2021

Confederates and Comancheros is co-authored by award winning historian Glen Sample Ely.

The Last Day Before Forever, a dystopian science fiction novel: 2023

Confederates and Comancheros, about Civil War spies, Texas cattleman, Comancheros, New Mexican politicians, butchers and more, has already won first place in the Westerners International Co-Founders Award for non-fiction and first place and winner of the Will Rogers Gold Medallion Award for best non-fiction book of western history for 2022.

He spends each most of the year in Texas, but the summers in New Mexico with his wife at their cabin in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains