When I was first diving deep into all the Billy the Kid scholarship back in the last century doesn’t that sound ridiculous? much heavy lifting had already been done by my go-to researchers, Philip J. Rasch, Nora True Henn, William A. Kelleher and Frederick Nolan. Even then folks thought there was little more to find out.
True West Magazine
Janice Sallee Dunnahoo
Janice Dunnahoo is the archivist for the Historical Foundation of Southeastern New Mexico. She is a sought-after public speaker on local history topics for government and civic organizations. Dunnahoo writes a weekly column “Historically Speaking” for the
Roswell Daily Record, (Roswell, New Mexico) and is also a regular contributor to the
West Texas Historical Association Newsletter and
Texas-New Mexico Border Archives. In 2020, she was a panelist for the Western History Association Conference and at the New Mexico Humanities conference in 2021. She is also a professional genealogist.
People don’t realize how hard it is to put together a historical article when you have several different historical “sources” that vary on what actually happened.