~Publications~
The Sutton-Taylor Feud: The Deadliest Blood Feud in Texas
(University of North Texas Press, Denton, 2009)
James Brown Miller and Death in Oklahoma: Was Justice Denied in Ada?
(Reese's Print Shop, Gonzales, TX 2009)
John
B. Armstrong, Texas Ranger and Pioneer Ranchman
(Texas A&M Univ. Press, College Station, TX 2006)
Texas Ranger
N.O. Reynolds The Intrepid
(Talei Publishers, Inc., Honolulu, HI 2005)
The Free-Hearted
Fellows of the Iron Front (a noted Austin, Texas Saloon);
a chapter in Legendary Watering Holes The Saloons That Made Texas
Famous
(Texas A&M Univ. Press, College Station, TX 2004)
But One
Shot Was Fired: Sgt. N.O. Reynolds and the Arrest of the Horrells;
a chapter in Revenge! And Other True Tales of the Old West
(Scarlet Mask Enterprises, Avoca, IN 2004)
Captain L.H.
McNelly: Texas Ranger The Life and Times of a Fighting Man
(State House Press, Austin, TX 2001)
Captain C.B.
McKinney: The Law in South Texas
(Henington Publishing Co., Wolfe City, TX 1993)
James Madison
Brown: Texas Sheriff, Texas Turfman
(Henington Publishing Co., Wolfe City, TX 1993
Bowen and
Hardin
(Creative Publishing Co., College Station, TX 1991)
Through the
Century: A History of South Wayne, Wisconsin
(Ski Printers, Blanchardville, WI 1989)
Pidge A Texas Ranger From Virginia
(Henington Publishing Co., Wolfe City, TX 1985)
Phil Coe:
Texas Gambler
(Henington Publishing Co., Wolfe City, TX 1984)
Clay Allison:
Portrait Of A Shootist
(Pioneer Book Publishers, Seagraves, TX 1983)
The Capture
of John Wesley Hardin
(Creative Publishing Co., College Station, TX 1978)
Shadows Along
the Pecos
(West of the Pecos Museum Press, Pecos, TX 1977)
Parsons has
contributed hundreds of book reviews and articles dealing with the
Old West outlaws, lawmen, and Texas Rangers to such publications as:
True West,
Old West, Real West, East Texas Historical Association Journal,
Tombstone Times, South Texas Studies, and others.
~Organizations~
~Wild West History Association (WWHA)
~Oklahoma Outlaw and Lawman History Association (OKOLHA)
~English Westerners Society
~Caldwell County Texas Historical Commission (past president)
~Friends of the J.B. Nickells Library (Luling, TX) (current secretary)