C.E. Campbell

C.E. Campbell (1940–2018)

Documentary Historian • University Professor • Author

Charles E. "Chuck" Campbell was a university professor, chemist, private investigator, and author. His documentary histories preserved the people, places, and events that shaped the history of the American West through extensive primary-source research. His books are distinguished by presenting history through the voices of those who experienced it firsthand.

Campbell earned his doctorate from the School of Public Health at the University of California, Los Angeles. He completed undergraduate studies at Westminster College, the University of Redlands, and California State University, Los Angeles, and later pursued post-doctoral studies in chemistry at South Dakota State University and the University of California, Irvine.

During a career spanning more than four decades, Campbell served as a university professor, pharmaceutical researcher, public health educator, and private investigator. For approximately thirty years, he specialized in medical-legal fraud investigations and authored eight academic books in the field of public health.

Later in his academic career, Campbell devoted himself to documentary historical research. Drawing upon the investigative methods he developed throughout his careers in science, law enforcement, and private investigation, he reconstructed history through original documents, letters, journals, and firsthand accounts.

Campbell's published works preserve the people, places, and events that shaped the American West, the Mexican Revolution, the U.S.–Mexico Borderlands, military medicine, and the Mojave Desert.

Campbell's historical research drew extensively from major university special collections, government archives, private manuscript collections, newspapers, family papers, photographs, oral histories, and firsthand correspondence. His work on Hacienda de Corralitos Ranch, the historic Sheldon Hotel in El Paso, Curtis Howe Springer's Zzyzx Mineral Springs, and Colonel Charles M. Hendricks preserved thousands of historical documents and brought renewed attention to subjects that had received little comprehensive documentary study.

Continuing the Legacy

Today, Green Street Publications continues the documentary history tradition established by C.E. Campbell, preserving, expanding, and publishing his research while preparing new editions of his works. Guided by the same principles of primary-source documentation, careful scholarship, and historical accuracy that defined Campbell's career, Green Street Publications remains dedicated to preserving the people, places, and events that shaped the American West, northern Mexico, and the U.S.–Mexico Borderlands for future generations.

Published Works

• Mines, Cattle and Rebellion: An Intimate Portrait of the Mexican Revolution
• The Borderland Princess: Consort to Criminals, Revolutionaries, Mercenaries, and Patriots
• Zzyzx and the Last Shaman of the Desert: The Rise and Fall of Curtis Howe Springer
• Going the Extra Yard: An Army Doctor's Odyssey
• The Price Paid for Victory: A Photographic Diary of an American Doctor in World War I
• It's the Journey