Spur Award Winning Author Doug Hocking has completed advanced studies in American history, ethnology, and historical archaeology. Raised on the Jicarilla Apache Reservation, Doug retired from the U.S. Army after serving in Military Intelligence and as an officer in Armored Cavalry. He is the author of many award-winning books of Southwest History including: Southwest Train Robberies, Terror on the Santa Fe Trail, a history of the Jicarilla tribe, Tom Jeffords, Friend of Cochise and Black Legend, about an 1861 Incident at Apache Pass said to have started the Chiricahua War. He has won the Spur Award, the Will Rogers Medallion, and the Co-founders’ Award for Best History and the Danielson for best presentation.