James Townsend

The U.S. Secret Service provided Steve Sederwall with two black-and-white images of a counterfeit $100 bill from the Merchant National Bank of Bedford, Series 1865-along with clear reproduction guidelines and instructions to credit the agency. Sederwall failed to do so. Despite being told the images were provided simply as relevant materials-not as proof of connection to Billy the Kid—the photos were later used in public claims that ignored both attribution and historical accuracy.

This serves as a retraction and correction of the article "A Brief Bit of History from the Cold West Files," by Steve Sederwall, which appeared in Volume 3 of our Coalition Press. When we support wrong history, and are shown the errors, we regard it our duty to correct ourselves and realign our trajectory with the facts. We have reached out to Steve Sederwall and David Turk for their conment, but as of this posting, have received no response. On December 31, 2022, Sederwall advised his...

by James Townsend On January 10, 1878, Alexander McSween wrote the following open letter to the Eco Del Rio Grande: “Lincoln, N. M. January 10, 1878 Mr. Lapoint: Dear sir: — An editorial paragraph in the Eco of the 3rd inst. does me great injustice. By written contract and general power of attorney with and from Mrs. Emilie Scholand and Mr. Charles Fritz, administratrix and administrator of the estate of Emil Fritz, deceased, I became attorney of said estate during the month of October,...