4 Corners Tour featuring Doug Hocking

I would like to introduce you to Doug Hocking

1) How long have you been writing? In one sense since I was 14 and attended an Ivy League Prep School where they convinced me I couldn’t write. In the Army I found out that I was the only one who could. I’ve been writing fulltime since 2009. I’ve been researching since at my Cornish grandmother’s knee I learned all sorts of fantastic things from her background. I learned more growing up on an Indian reservation and began researching their lives in person and in books.

2) What’s your favorite part of writing? I enjoy researching and using an understanding of business and government structures to understand where records might be kept. More than anything, I enjoy sinking back into the 19th century, using my knowledge of the times, terrain, the people, and their tools and cultures to be able to tell history as if it were a novel. I like to make history as palatable as novels.

3) What’s the title of your favorite book that you wrote? Tom Jeffords, Friend of Cochise is my favorite and most recent. It brought in a Spur Award Finalist from Western Writers of America. That’s sort of like getting the Silver Medal and it’s nice to be recognized by one’s peer, even to be accepted as a peer.

4) What book are you talking about today? Tom Jeffords, Friend of Cochise the first biography of Tom Jeffords. Think Jimmy Stewart in the movie Broken Arrow riding alone into Cochise’s camp to make the peace.

5) What’s it about? It’s about how Tom came to be a man who could accept Apaches as people and win their trust. It’s about two men whose mutual friendship and trust made it possible to end an eleven-year war.

6) Do you have a link to buy it on Amazon? https://www.amazon.com/Tom-Jeffords-Cochise-Doug-Hocking/dp/1493026372/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1526492267&sr=8-1&keywords=doug+hocking

7) Do you have any social media sites we should know about? www.doughocking.com

https://www.facebook.com/Doug-Hocking-Author-Page-264649760252852/

https://www.facebook.com/TomJeffordsUSARMYSCOUT/

Black Legend: George Bascom, Cochise, and the Start of the Apache Wars is due on October 1, 2018 and is available for pre-order. I’m working on Terror on the Santa Fe Trail: Kit Carson and the Jicarilla Apache.

Doug Hocking is an independent scholar who has completed advanced studies in American history, ethnology, and historical archaeology. Doug, who served as an NCO in Military Intelligence and retired as an armored cavalry officer, grew up among the Jicarilla Apache and paisanos of the Rio Arriba (Northern New Mexico). His novels include Massacre at Point of Rocks (a tale of the Santa Fe Trail), Mystery of Chaco Canyon (the DaVinci Code Meets the Wild West), Wildest West (a collection of short fiction and non-fiction), and Devil on the Loose (a love story in the tradition of Louis L’Amour set in 1860 Arizona). His work has appeared in True West, Wild West, Buckskin Bulletin, Roundup Magazine, Desert Tracks, and the Journal of Arizona History. He is a 2018 Spur Award Finalist (equivalent to the Silver Medal at the Olympics) from Western Writers of America for Tom Jeffords: Friend of Cochise and a recipient of the 2017 Danielson Award for Excellent Presentation from Westerners International. Doug is a member of the board of the Arizona Historical Society. He is currently working on a history of the beginning of the Chiricahua Wars focusing on the Bascom Affair for TwoDot Press, an imprint of Rowman & Littlefield; Black Legend: George Bascom, Cochise, and the Start of the Apache Wars is available for pre-order from Amazon.com.