Author: Sherry Robinson
SHERRY ROBINSON is a long-time New Mexico journalist and author whose work has earned awards from nine communications organizations. She graduated from the University of New Mexico and began her career in 1975 on the Navajo Reservation. She has worked for newspapers, television, and the University of New Mexico, where she edited the award-winning research magazine, Quantum. She is the author of Apache Voices and El Malpais, Mt. Taylor and the Zuni Mountains. Robinson has given talks on Apaches as a member of the speaker’s bureau for the New Mexico Humanities Council since 1999. She lives in Albuquerque.
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Works Published by UNT Press
I Fought a Good Fight: A History of the Lipan Apaches
Published: June, 2013 Pages: 528 Features: 26 b&w photos. 11 maps. Notes. Bib. Index.
This history of the Lipan Apaches, from archeological evidence to the present, tells the story of some of the least known, least understood people in the Southwest. These plains buffalo hunters and traders were one of the first groups to acquire horses, and with this advantage they expanded from the Panhandle across Texas and into Coahuila. Around 1700, the Comanches began forcing Eastern Apaches from their haunts, but they didn’t yield easily and from then on were the Comanches’ stubborn enemies. more... about I Fought a Good Fight: A History of the Lipan Apaches
- First runner-up for a Zia Award from New Mexico Press Women, 2015
- Winner of the New Mexico-Arizona Book Award in History, Fray Francisco Atanasio Dominguez Award, Historical Society of New Mexico, 2014