MICHAEL L. COLLINS, Professor of History
 B.A., M.A., Ph.D., Texas Christian University

Cooke County, Texas:  Where the South and the West Meet (Gainesville, Texas:  Texas Committee for the Humanities and the Cooke County Heritage Society, 1981).
A Paradise Lost:  The Story of Woodlake (Sherman, Texas:  Southwestern Library Association, 1981).
Those Daring Young Men:  A History of the Automobile Pioneers in Fort Worth, 1902-1940 (Fort Worth, Texas:  Frank D. Kent, 1985).
That Damned Cowboy:  Theodore Roosevelt and the American West, 1883-1898 (New York:  Peter Lang, 1989).
Profiles in Power:  Twentieth Century Texans in Washington, edited by Michael Collins and Kenneth E. Hendrickson, Jr.  (Arlington Heights, Illinois:  Harlan Davidson, 1993).
"An Infidel in Zion:  H. L. Mencken and the Great Monkey Trial," North Texas Historian, Vol. 1, No. 1, November, 1977.
"Theodore Roosevelt," Historians of the American Frontier, edited by John R. Wunder (Westport, Connecticut:  Greenwood Press, 1988).
"Big Tree and the Kiowa Red River Raid of 1868," West Texas Historical Association Yearbook, Vol. 64, 1988.
"A Few Scattered Disciplines," A Centennial History of the First Christian Church of Wichita Falls, Texas  (Wichita Falls:  First Christian Church, 1990).
"Statehood, 1845-1860," The Texas Heritage, edited by Ben Procter and Archie McDonald (Arlington Heights, Illinois:  Harlan Davidson, 1991).
"Rustlers, Rangers, and Regulars:  The Robb Commission and an American Response to Depredations Along the Mexican Border," Faculty Papers of Midwestern State University Series 3, vol. XI, 1986-1991.
"Ralph Yarborough," Profiles in Power:  Twentieth Century Texans in Washington, edited by Michael Collins and Kenneth E. Hendrickson, Jr.  (Arlington Heights, Illinois:  Harlan Davidson, 1993).
"Lloyd Bentsen," Profiles in Power:  Twentieth Century Texans in Washington, edited by Michael Collins and Kenneth E. Hendrickson, Jr.  (Arlington Heights, Illinois:  Harlan Davidson, 1993).
“The Legend of Jedediah Smith: Mountain Man, Explorer, Wandering Spirit,” Faculty Papers of Midwestern State University
  Series 3, Vol. XII, 1992-1994. 
“Foreword,” The Chief Executives of Texas: From Stephen F. Austin to John B. Connally, Jr. by Kenneth E. Hendrickson, Jr. (College Station: Texas A&M Press, 1995).
“The Texas Devils: McNelly's Rangers and the Palo Alto Fight of 1875,” Papers of the Second  Palo Alto Conference (Brownsville, TX: National Park Service, Palo Alto Battlefield National Historic Site, 1997).