Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities

Part 1: John Childers, killer who came to Clovis

One of the first real shootouts in Clovis happened on Aug. 15, 1909. That’s one of the first stories I heard when I started writing about Clovis history. Old Tom Pendergrass, the first historian of Clovis, told me the story. He was a lad of 9, who wa...