The Coronado Expedition will be published as a $2.99 e-book in late 2012. It will be grounded in the 1896/1904 English translations of Pedro de Castañeda's eyewitness account. It will also include other Coronado-era documents. The book will include historical notes and corrections to make the documents more understandable to a modern reader. You can see the still developing website.

Media Management in the Age of Giants was published in 2003 by Blackwell Publishing and re-issued in 2006 in India by Surjeet Publications. The Kindle e-book platform began offering the book in 2008. The first edition is out of print, but a second edition will be published in 2012 by University of New Mexico Press.

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Last Update: 2/27/2012

When my wife and I moved to New Mexico, I soon came to realize that America's first named but least known Indian war—The Tiguex War—was fought near our house along the Rio Grande. I found very few people who had ever heard about the war until I met historians Richard Flint and Shirley Cushing Flint. Then I learned that all the eyewitness accounts told about the war only from the Spanish conquest point of view. I wrote this book to tell, for the first time, the account of the war from the Pueblo Indians' perspective. To them, the arrival of the conquistadors must have seemed like encountering invaders from another world. This book relates their courage and sacrifice in successfully driving the first Europeans out of their country. Return to home page.

Intended as a complementary book to Winter of the Metal People, this will be a reprint of Spanish eyewitness documents from the 1540-42 Coronado expedition. George Parker Winship first translated the documents into English in 1896. His translation is the best known and most quoted of at least three translations. My historical notes are included to make the arcane and, frankly, xeonophobic, sixteenth-century Spanish documents more understandable to a modern reader. We'll never be able to totally replace all the inaccurate and misleading digital and print editions of Winship's translation, but this book will be a start. The Coronado Expedition will be available as an e-book in late 2012. Return to home page.

I wrote a chapter for this book, published in 2011 by University of New Mexico Press. My chapter is titled "The Tiguex War in Fact, Folklore, and Fiction." This book examines the environmental and cultural impact of the 1540-42 Coronado expedition while also placing it in the context of what was happening in Mexico as Spain expanded west and north of Mexico City. Return to home page.

I wrote this college textbook when I began teaching media management classes at the University of Iowa and later at the University of New Mexico. Having owned a small weekly newspaper group in Iowa for 12 years, I saw competing media management texts as having been written by academics with no ownership and very little if any management experience. I believed students would find the class more practical by learning from my on-the-job, real-life experiences of owning a media company. You can visit the textbook's website. Click on the Blogger logo to go to the book's blog. Return to home page.