There were no less than 16 train robberies along the southern corridor between Yuma and El Paso. Almost all of them come back one way or another to Cochise County where the outlaws hid, came from, or were peace officers, sometimes both outlaw and peace officer. The tales are often amusing.
Meet Doug Hocking
Doug Hocking has completed advanced studies in American history, ethnology, and historical archaeology. Raised on the Jicarilla Apache Reservation, Doug retired from the US Army after serving in military intelligence and as an officer in armored cavalry. He is the author of many award-winning books of Southwest history including: Southwest Train Robberies; Terror on the Santa Fe Trail: Kit Carson and the Jicarilla Apache; Tom Jeffords, Friend of Cochise; and The Black Legend: George Bascom, Cochise, and the Start of the Apache Wars, about the Bascom Affair.
In 2023, Log Cabin Village honored the lives of two individuals enslaved at the Port Sullivan Plantation Home which today serves as the Village's main entrance and museum store. During this presentation, Log Cabin Village Assistant Site Supervisor, Shae Nawoj, will share the research that led to the installation of two memorial Stopping Stones at the Village and the ways such efforts can be used to tell the stories of our enslaved ancestors in a meaningful and relevant way.
Meet Shae Nawoj
Shae Nawoj works as the Assistant Historic Site Supervisor at Log Cabin Village in Fort Worth. She has worked in the museum field at institutions as varied as Saint-Gaudens National Historic Site, Gettysburg National Military Park, Colonial Williamsburg, and the Buffalo Bill Center of the West. Her background includes studies in public history with an emphasis on 19th-century American history and memory, with a BA from Sam Houston State University and an MA from the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. At Log Cabin Village she works as part of a team on a mission to set the record straight about the complexities of life on the Texas frontier.