Research and Creative Activity

Peer-Reviewed and Journal Articles

H.A. Wiley's field notes
January 2026

Surveying the Capitol Land Reservation in Texas

Southwestern Historical Quarterly CXXIX, no. 3 (January 2026): 335–364

Advertisement for the Vaughan Land Company
2025

‘Opportunity Knocking’: The Vaughan Land Company and Early Bailey County Development

Panhandle-Plains Historical Review 96 (2025): 40–65

The headwaters of the Missouri River
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

Front page of Der Texas Demokrat
2018

Maps and Newspapers in the Southwest Collection

Archivation Exploration 3, no. 2 (2018)

Notes and Shorter Contributions

2014

Newspapers, Oil, and Railroad Land

West Texas Historical Review 90 (2014): 129–135

2012

JA Cattle Company

West Texas Historical Association Year Book 88 (2012): 173–175

Magazines and Trade Publications

Authentic Texas, Summer 2025

Lipscomb County Courthouse

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The Lipscomb County courthouse
Authentic Texas, Winter 2024

The Remnants of the Southwest Conference

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Southwest Conference archival memorabilia
Authentic Texas, Spring 2023

Tumbleweed Smith and the Sounds of Texas

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Tumbleweed Smith recording audio in Texas
Authentic Texas, Fall 2021

Comfortably Lodged

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A historic Texas county jail converted to a museum
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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Detail of the annotations on Stephen F. Austin's 1835 map of Texas

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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A buffalo hunter’s stand on the South Plains
Lubbock Avalanche-Journal, September 2, 2017

Accounts Vary on Location of 1877 Battle of Yellow House Canyon

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Map of Lubbock County showing Yellow House Draw, Blackwater Draw, and the site of the 1877 battle

Book Chapters

Caprock Chronicles: More Tales of the Llano Estacado, The History Press, 2021

Tahoka Lake

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