James Bailey Blackshear is an award-winning author, historian, professor, husband, father, and grandpa who loves reading, writing, autumns in Texas and summers in New Mexico. His h...view moreJames Bailey Blackshear is an award-winning author, historian, professor, husband, father, and grandpa who loves reading, writing, autumns in Texas and summers in New Mexico. His history books and journal articles focus on nineteenth-century Northeastern New Mexico, yet as The Last Day Before Forever attests, his writing interests are varied. He believes reality is often found somewhere between fiction and non-fiction, between an everchanging past and future that is just as elusive.view less