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Jay W. Sharp
Last updated on Monday, December 23, 2002
During his career, Jay Sharp has written some 250 documentary motion pictures, including an outdoor television series which ran nationally (111 markets) for three years. He has also scripted several productions which won international awards.
Jay Sharp He has published many articles in the print media, including national and regional popular magazines, newspapers and scholarly journals. Most recently he has sold articles to Wild West, MotorHome, Roads to Adventure, Gateway and Texas Parks & Wildlife Magazine. Jay did the cover stories (two articles) for the TP&W Magazine April 1998, issue and has recently completed new articles which will appear in Wild West and the TP&W Magazine in 1999. He had two recent articles distributed through History News Service to some 50 major newspapers nationwide, and recorded one article for a radio broadcast. In years past, Jay has published in Southwest Historical Quarterly, the Texas Archaeological Society Bulletin, and the El Paso Archaeological Society Artifact.
Jay has recently completed a book, Texas Unexplained, for TP&W, and is working on a new book, Historic Trails of Texas.
Additionally, he has published a great many photographs, both with articles he has written and in special assignments for various publications. He contributed photographs to coffee table books on Texas, Houston, and Odessa. Through photographic agents, he has sold pictures to encyclopedias, text books, newspapers, annual reports and various other publications.
Jay is now at a stage in his career where he can focus on those subjects which excite him. Most often, this includes travel, history, archaeology/anthropology, natural history, and humor, although occasionally he wanders off into other kinds of good stories. His new book will be combination of history and natural history, an exploration of the human experience in a rugged natural environment.
Articles by Jay Sharp
Hispanic currents flow through the history and culture of Las Cruces and Mesilla like the Rio Grande flows through the fields and arid pasturelands of these adjoining valley communities.
Spanish-speaking conquistadores and colonists left their tracks and bones along the sandy river bottoms more than four centuries ago. Northern New Mexico's Spanish-speaking settlers, uprooted by the Mexican/American conflict of the late 1840s, rebuilt their lives at Las Cruces and Mesilla, constructing community, churches and homes along the riverbanks. Their descendants, along with more recent Spanish-speaking settlers, now serve in local political offices; work in local businesses, industries and professions; study at the local university and colleges; and teach in the local schools.
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