Toby Smith

Romantic Inns of Mexico: A Selective Guide to Charming Accommodations South of the Border

Goofy Things Girls Do to Get Guys: Part Encouragement, Part Good Laugh

The Myth of Green Marketing: Tending Our Goats at the Edge of Apocalypse

The Myth of Green Marketing: Tending Our Goats at the Edge of Apocalypse

Dateline New Mexico

New Mexico Odyssey

Little Gray Men: Roswell and the Rise of a Popular Culture

Ten Turtles to Tucumcari: A Personal History of the Railway Express Agency

Little Toby Smith: Tales of the Old West Book 38

Toby Smith was picked on because he was a small boy, but he had a sister named Stephanie that took nothing off no one. At recess she would shout toward the school yard, “Don’t mess with Toby Smith! Don’t you boys pick on him!” She would rush into the school yard and help Toby to his feet then kick t...

Toby Smith and the Election (Volume 2)

It is September 2020. Trenton has recovered from the worst tsunami to hit the United States in memory. On their first day to school, Toby and his sister, Nora, hear a loud explosion. They find out later it was the sound of one section of a mall parking lot falling apart. Four construction workers ar...

John Preston: The Teenage Detective (Volume 1)

Young John Preston was born with an incredible natural talent. This talent makes him super-observant and highly skilled in many things. Not knowing anything about his biological parents, John lives in a cruel orphanage where they treat him like a slave. At age seventeen he escapes, with some help fr...

New Mexico Odyssey

In "New Mexico Odyssey", Toby Smith goes on the road to find memorable people, engage them n conversation, and come away with good stories to share with us. We motor along on old Route 66 the length of the state encountering towns and people who've seen better times but aren't sorry about what they ...

Little Gray Men: Roswell and the Rise of a Popular Culture

More than half of all Americans believe UFOs and aliens exist. How did extraterrestrials come to be so real for so many? Toby Smith tracks down our fascination with extraterrestrials, showing how Roswell became the fiber out of which all flying saucer and alien stories were woven in science fiction ...

Toby Smith and the Tsunami (Volume 1)

It is January 2020 in Trenton, a town in Northern California. One morning, Toby Smith wakes up trembling. He just had an awful dream in which a giant wall of water is sweeping everybody away. He finds out that he dreamt of a powerful earthquake followed by a tsunami. He discovers that nearby lies th...

Ten Turtles to Tucumcari: A Personal History of the Railway Express Agency

From its founding in 1929, Railway Express Agency dominated the transportation industry until the 1960s. In return for a monopoly on passenger train service, the express company was obligated to accept any and all shipments within the United States. REA handled carloads of cattle, race horses, and f...

Bush League Boys: The Postwar Legends of Baseball in the American Southwest

This loving tribute to the defunct minor league teams of New Mexico and west Texas resurrects a forgotten period of baseball history. Through oral histories of players, umpires, fans, sportswriters, and team officials, Toby Smith brings to life the West Texas–New Mexico League, the Longhorn League, ...