Western New Mexico University history professor and award-winning author Bruce Wilson returned to the show to talk with Lynn Moorer about his book of historical fiction, No Place That Far, a spinoff of his previous novel, Death in the Black Patch, which interweaves actual historical events and genuine figures to trace the exploits of J. D. Hooper, a former Night Rider who terrorized Kentucky tobacco farmers and who is on the run after killing a man then masterminding a huge conflagration of train cars in Memphis. A greedy man who likes to hurt people, Hooper makes his way to El Paso, then Juarez, and carries out tasks for Pancho Villa and other real-life characters in his quest to avoid getting caught. He settles in Bisbee, Arizona where his encounters with a respectable widow and her 10-year-old son hint that his life may take a different course.
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