Book Signing & Presentation

Please join the Raton Museum in welcoming author Michael R. Maddox for a book signing and presentation of Porter and Ike Stockton: Colorado and New Mexico Border Outlaws.

This is the first book that tells the full story of Porter and Ike Stockton and the turmoil which resulted in their violent deaths – nine months and forty miles apart – in the Animas River valley of northwest New Mexico and southwest Colorado in 1881. Before that happened, the brothers lived in Colfax County where Porter Stockton was indicted for three murders. One of those murders was witnessed by Doc Holliday. 

This is a 530-page book (with 70 illustrations, photos and maps) which includes two chapters dealing almost exclusively with events in Colfax County during the 1870s. The book also includes previously unpublished information about the early history of Cimarron, the hell-on-wheels railroad camp at Otero and other areas of Colfax County. The author’s presentation will focus heavily on the early cattlemen and cowboys of Colfax County.

Mike Maddox spent six years researching and writing his book, which included numerous trips to universities, museums and county courthouses in New Mexico, Colorado and Texas (with trips to Cimarron, Raton and Trinidad).

The book,  Porter and Ike Stockton: Colorado and New Mexico Border Outlaws, retails for $24.95 and “rattles with blood and thunder between the lines” (True West Magazine, December 2014).