Clay, William

Rancher, retired country lawyer, and award-winning author Bill Neal is a native of Medicine Mound, Texas where his ancestors were ranchers and early settlers of the community. Bill initially wrote two books on that area's local history: "The Last Frontier: The Story of Hardeman County" (1966) and "Our Stories: Legend of the Mounds" (1997). Subsequently, he focused his writing efforts on covering the development of justice on the frontier with works that include: "Getting Away With Murder on the Texas Frontier: Notorious Killings and Celebrated Trials" (2006); "From Guns to Gavels: How Justice