In June, I attended the Western Writers of America annual conference in Lubbock, Texas. The thriving city of the Southern Plains not only lives up to its nickname, “Hub City,” as the crossroads of West Texas, but also as a “hub” for historians and writers researching Southwestern history. Fiction and non-fiction authors will appreciate Texas Tech University’s Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library with its tremendous archive of primary sources, newspapers, rare books, hist


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