EDITOR'S NOTE: Caprock Chronicles is written or edited each week by Paul Carlson, emeritus professor of history at Texas Tech. This week’s essay, written by Carlson, reviews an 1875 Army expedition ...
EDITOR'S NOTE: "Caprock Chronicles" is a series of short articles and essays that examine the life, people and historical places of our region's past. Paul Carlson, professor emeritus of history at ...
The high, pancake-flat plateau that sprawls across Eastern New Mexico and western Texas has long been known by the romantic name El Llano Estacado, or Staked Plains. Some frontier historians refer to ...