About Paul L. Tsompanas

Paul L. Tsompanas returned to writing after a long career as a senior congressional staff member. Before entering the world of politics, he spent ten years as an award-winning reporter for California and New Mexico newspapers. Through the years, he has contributed articles to various regional and national magazines. He and his wife, Mary Ann, live in Colonial Beach, Virginia, seventy miles south of Washington, D.C.

For more about Paul Tsompanas, visit his website.

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Books

Juan Patron: A Fallen Star in the Days of Billy the Kid

$16.95

Follow the life and times of Juan Patron, one of New Mexico’s leading frontiersmen! ​

​By Paul L. Tsompanas

Juan Patron lived through one of the bloodiest chapters of the American West: the 1878 feud known as the Lincoln County War in New Mexico. Reputed for his heroics, Patron tried to tame a frontier plagued with violence, illiteracy and greed--first as a teacher, then as a desperado hunter, and eventually as speaker of the territorial house at age twenty-five, the youngest person to hold this position in New Mexico in history.

With keen, well-researched detail and the art of a master storyteller, author Paul Tsompanas leads us through Patron's life and times--and his fate at the hands of a Texas cowboy named Michael Maney, who outdrew him in a dramatic showdown. Many believe that, had he lived, Patron would have become New Mexico's first congressman when it entered the Union in 1912.

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Kindle ebook available here ($2.99)

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