November 13, 2007
Paul Cool's long awaited Salt Wars book is in the final stages at Texas A&M and will be out sometime next year. Here is a sneak peek at the cover:



Yes, that's my artwork and I'm really looking forward to the book. We have long known about the El Paso Salt Wars, but nobody to my knowledge has ever delved into it with such clarity and detail.

Meanwhile, my Billy the Kid oil painting that graced the cover of Arizona Highways (1991) and the cover of my book on the Kid (1992), has a new home in Fountain Valley, California. Dirk and Tonya Rash bought the painting and sent me this photo of the painting in their living room. I'm always happy when my children find good homes:



"We do not err because truth is difficult to see. In fact it is visible at a glance. We err because this is more comfortable."
—Alexander Solzhenitsyn