Detailed Information for Michael Collins

Books:

 Texas Devils:  Rangers and Regulars on the Lower Rio Grande, 1846-1861.   Norman:  University of Oklahoma Press, 2008.   

 Tales of Texoma:  Episodes in the History of the Red River Border, ed.  Wichita Falls, TX:  Midwestern State University Press, 2005.

 Profiles in Power:  Twentieth Century Texans in Washington,  New Edition, ed. With Kenneth E. Hendrickson, Jr. and Patrick Cox.                           Austin:  University of Texas Press, 2004.

Profiles in Power:  Twentieth Century Texans in Washington.  Ed. by Michael Collins and Kenneth E. Hendrickson, Jr.  Arlington                                 Heights, Ill.:  Harlan Davidson, Inc., 1993.

 That Damned Cowboy:  Theodore Roosevelt and the American West, 1883-1898.  New York:  Peter Lang Publishing, 1989.

 Cooke County, Texas:  Where the South and the West Meet. Gainesville, TX:  Texas Committee for the Humanities and the                                        Cooke County Heritage Society, 1981.

Articles and Essays:

 “The Education of Theodore Roosevelt,” in A Theodore Roosevelt Companion, ed. by Serge Ricard. Wiley-Blackwell, forthcoming 2010.

 “Walter Prescott Webb,” in Remembering Texas, ed. by Patrick Cox and Kenneth Hendrickson, Jr. University of Texas Press, forthcoming 2011.

 “The Execution of Private Garcia,” in Wichita Falls Literature and Art Review, Wichita Falls:  Spring, 2009.

 “Theodore Roosevelt’s The Strenuous Life,” in American History Through Literature, 1870-1920, ed. by Tom Quick and Gary Scharnhorst.  New York:  Charles Scribner’s Sons, 2005.

 “Introduction,” in Tales of Texoma, Midwestern State University Press, 2005.

 “A Place of Smoke and Burning Brimstone:  The Battle of the Little Wichita,”  in Tales of Texoma, MidwesternStateUniversityPress, 2005.

 “Toward the North Star:  the Chisholm and Western Trails,” in Tales of Texoma, Midwestern State University Press, 2005.

 “The Hanging Tree:  Violence, Vigilantism, and Vengeance in Confederate North Texas,” in Tales of Texoma, MidwesternStateUniversityPress, 2005.

 “The Last Surrender:  A Story of Geronimo,”  in Tales of Texoma, Midwestern State University Press, 2005.

 “Introduction,” in Profiles in Power:  Twentieth Century Texans in Washington, New edition, ed. With Kenneth E. Hendrickson, Jr. and Patrick Cox.  Austin:  University of Texas Press, 2004.

 “For Gallantry in Action:  James B. Dosher and the Battle of the Little Wichita,”  West Texas Historical Association Yearbook, LXVIII, 2002.

“The Texas Devils:  McNelly’s Rangers and the Palo Alto Fight of 1875,” in Proceedings of the Second Annual Palo Alto Conference, Washington, D.C.:  The National Park Service, Department of the Interior, 1997.

 “Foreword,” in Chief Executives of Texas, by Kenneth E. Hendrickson, Jr.  College Station:  Texas A&M Press, 1995.

 “Jedediah Strong Smith:  Mountain Man, Explorer, Wandering Spirit,” in Midwestern State University Faculty Papers, Series 3, Vol. XII, 1995.

“Woodlake,” in The New Handbook of Texas.  Austin:  Texas State Historical Association, 1994.

 “Lloyd Bentsen,” in Profiles in Power:  Twentieth Century Texans in Washington, ed. by Michael Collins and Kenneth E. Hendrickson, Jr.  Arlington Heights, Ill.:  Harland Davidson, Inc., 1993.

 “Ralph Yarborough,” in Profiles in Power:  Twentieth Century Texans in Washington, ed. by Michael Collins and Kenneth E. Hendrickson, Jr.  Arlington Heights, Ill.:  Harland Davidson, Inc., 1993.

 “Statehood, 1845-1860,” in The Texas Heritage, ed. by Ben Procter and Archie McDonald.  Second edition.  Arlington Heights, Ill.:  Harlan Davidson, Inc., 1991 (also reprinted in third and fourth editions, 1998, 2003).

 “A Few Scattered Disciples,” in A Centennial History of the First Christian Church of Wichita Falls, Texas.  Wichita Falls:  First Christian Church, 1990.

 “The Church that Faith Built,” in A Centennial History of the First Christian Church of Wichita Falls, Texas.  Wichita Falls:  First Christian Church, 1990.

 “Theodore Roosevelt,”  in Historians of the American Frontier, ed. by John R. Wunder.  Westport, Conn.:  Greenwood Press, 1988.

 “Big Tree and the Kiowa Red River Raid of 1868,” West Texas  Historical Association Yearbook, LXIV, 1988.

 Those Daring Young Men:  A History of the Automobile Pioneers of Fort Worth, 1902-1939.  Fort Worth:  Frank Kent, 1985.

 A Paradise Lost:  The Story of Woodlake.  Sherman, Texas:  Southwestern Library Association, 1981.

 “An Infidel in Zion, H. L. Mencken and the Great Monkey Trial,”  North Texas Historian, Vol. 1, No. 1, November 1977.