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Doug Hocking
Doug Hocking, Douglas William Hocking, (born July 7, 1950, Mineola, Nassau, New York) is an historian, public speaker, and writer of historical fiction about the American Frontier. He is known for his love of the Southwest. Doug was raised on the Jicarilla Apache Reservation at Dulce, New Mexico, and grew up among Paisanos, Native Americans and cowboys. His books include Massacre at Point of Rocks, Mystery of Chaco Canyon, Wildest West, and Devil on the Loose. A biography of Tom Jeffords, titled The Life and Times of Tom Jeffords, Friend of Cochise, is scheduled for release by a major publisher in 2017.

Contents

 * 1) Growing up on the reservation
 * 2) Travel and the Army
 * 3) Education
 * 4) Massacre at Point of Rocks
 * 5) Mystery of Chaco Canyon
 * 6) Wildest West
 * 7) Devil on the Loose
 * 8) The Life and Times of Tom Jeffords, Friend of Cochise
 * 9) Activities
 * 10) References

=== Doug Hocking === Example.jpg|Doug Hocking

Date of Birth July 7, 1950

Place of Birth Mineola, New York

Current Home Sierra Vista near Tombstone, Arizona

Wife Deborah "Debbie" Erno Hocking

Children CW3 Eric Hocking, Army Special Forces MSG Jennifer Anderson, Signal Corps

Growing Up on the Reservation Doug spent his early years in the care of Emma Drake Pugsley Hocking, an emigrant from Cornwall and, according to family legend, a descendant of Francis Drake. He still has peculiarities of speech arising from this and learned of Robert the Bruce, William Wallace, the Titanic, and Jack the Ripper even as he learned to talk. His great uncle Jim went down with the ship. Doug's parents, William J. Hocking, and Marion Rutherford Hocking, went as missionaries for the Dutch Reformed Church to the Jicarilla Apache. "In a church of Dutch emigrants, we were known as The English." Life on the reservation was hard. Dulce is isolated 125 miles northwest of Santa Fe and there was little contact with the outside world and no jobs. Defeated and confined, the Apache had little to do besides collect government annuities, drink cheap booze and find new and inventive ways to kill themselves and others. More than half of Doug's classmates died before they had finished high school. Hocking learned about their lives, culture and history and retains many dear friends among them.

Travel and the Army Doug Hocking was sent away to Stony Brook, Ivy League Prep School, but graduated from McCurdy High School in Santa Cruz, New Mexico. Doug remembers these as some of the happiest years of his life and tries to see his many friends in Santa Fe and the Rio Arriba every year. In 1968, without money for college, Doug joined the Army Security Agency, a wholly owned subsidiary of the National Security Agency, NSA, then known as No Such Agency. He was sent to Taiwan, Thailand and served at the Pentagon in International Security Affairs. After four years, Hocking returned to Taiwan and took a degree in Business Administration through the University of Maryland extension on the military base in Taipei. Returning to the states, he pursued graduate study in Social Anthropology at Arizona State University. He found work in contract archaeology, as a research assistant in the Center for Asian Studies, and in the Army Reserve where he was an Interrogator Prisoner of War. Bored with studies, he entered ROTC and took a commission as an Armored Cavalry Officer. He did tours at Fort Knox with the 6th Cavalry, in Germany with the 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment and returned to the states to instruct Military Intelligence lieutenants in the art of war at Fort Huachuca where he retired.

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