Murder on the White Sands wins WWHA Best Book Award

At the July 2008 meeting of the Wild West History Association, Corey Recko, author of Murder on the White Sands: The Disappearance of Albert and Henry Fountain, was on hand to receive the WWHA 2008 Best Book Award. Congratulations Corey!

On a cold February evening in 1896, prominent attorney Col. Albert Jennings Fountain and his eight-year-old son Henry disappeared near the White Sands of New Mexico. The governor called in both the Pinkerton Agency and Pat Garrett, killer of Billy the Kid, to investigate. The evidence pointed at three former deputies, who were defended by powerful ex-judge, lawyer, and politician Albert B. Fall. The verdict? Not guilty. The bodies of Albert Fountain and his young son Henry still lie in an unmarked grave, the location of which remains a mystery. Corey Recko tells for the first time the complete story of the Fountains and, through extensive research, reconstructs what really happened to them and who the likely killers were.

Murder on the White Sands is now available in paperback this month.  More details on Murder on the White Sands: The Disappearance of Albert and Henry Fountain

Also released in paperback this month is Robert DeArment’s edited Life of the Marlows: A True Story of Frontier Life of Early Days. This 1892 account of the five Marlow brothers and their tribulations in late nineteenth-century Young County, Texas, has been expertly edited and annotated by noted western historian Robert K. DeArment. After one Marlow brother killed a popular sheriff and was in turn murdered by bounty hunters, the other four brothers were arrested as accessories and jailed. Angry citizens ambushed the Marlows during a transfer to another town: two brothers were shot and killed, the other two severely wounded, and three mob members died in a shootout that inspired a John Wayne movie, The Sons of Katie Elder.

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