Jack Woodville London presenting Alliance for Texas History Annual Conference

Jack Woodville London will chair a panel titled, “Drawing Weapons, Drawing Boundaries: Geopolitics, Warfare, and the Impacts of Violence in the Texas-Mexico Borderlands, 1825 – 1857,” for the 2026 Alliance for Texas History annual conference in Fort Worth.

Set in the violent Republic of Texas of the early 1840’s, Dangerous Latitudes by Jack Woodville London is the story of an unlikely spy, two bumbling horse thieves, and a bewildering Black woman, all trapped between Sam Houston and a Mexican army that freely invades across the Rio Grande. Based on rich historical research and laced with exuberant, Texas-sized historical figures such as Sam Houston, Mirabeau Lamar, and Jack Hays, Dangerous Latitudes is a quest across a war-torn frontier that becomes a race to save two hundred captured Texans who the Mexican army has marked for death.