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Tom Osborne was head coach for the University of Nebraska football team for twenty-five years, during which the Huskers won three national championships. After he retired from coaching in 1997, Osborne served Nebraska¿s third district in the House of Representatives for six years and now works as the athletic director at the University of Nebraska¿Lincoln. He is the author of More Than Winning, available in a Bison Books edition. Gordon Thiess...

Chris Dixon is a senior research fellow in the School of Humanities at the University of Strathclyde and editor of Four Years in Europe with Buffalo Bill (available in a Bison Books edition).

Hull has a lifetime of fascinating anecdotes to tell

A. B. Guthrie Jr. (1901¿91) is the author of numerous books, including The Way West, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for fiction, as well as Murders at Moon Dance and Playing Catch-Up, both available in Bison Books editions. ¿Dayton Duncan is an award-winning writer, documentary filmmaker, and the author of numerous books, including Scenes of Visionary Enchantment: Reflections on Lewis and Clark (Nebraska, 2004).

William F. Cody (1846¿1917) founded the traveling show ¿Buffalo Bill¿s Wild West¿ in 1883 after serving as a scout in the U.S.¿Army and an actor in western stage dramas. While his show toured in the United States and Europe for three decades, he became an international celebrity. Frank Christianson, an associate professor of English at Brigham Young University, is the editor of the critical edition of The Life of Hon. William F. Cody, Known as...

George Sanders (1880�59) was a Chehalis (with Nisqually and Cowlitz) Indian who lived as a logger and farmer. Katherine Van Winkle Palmer (1895�82) was a distinguished geologist and paleontologist who founded the Paleontological Research Institute. Jay Miller is a linguist and anthropologist and is a former associate director of the D緼rcy McNickle Center for American Indian History at the Newberry Library in Chicago. He is the author of severa...

In personal essays that plumb the depths of not-belonging, Castro takes the all-too-raw materials of her adolescence and young adulthood and views them through the prism of time

John C. Fr¿nt (1813¿90) was a military officer who served in the Mexican-American War, took part in the Bear Flag Rebellion, and fought in the Civil War. He was also one of the first two senators from California and the first presidential candidate for the Republican Party in 1856. ¿Anne F. Hyde is a professor of history at Colorado College and the author of Empires, Nations, and Families: A History of the North American West, 1800¿1860 (Nebra...

Arthur J. Reynolds is a professor of social work, educational psychology, and child and family studies at the University of Wisconsin¿Madison,

Gregory O. Gagnon (Chippewa) was the academic vice president and faculty member at Oglala Lakota College for almost seventeen years and continues to consult with two Sioux and two Chippewa tribal colleges. He is currently a research associate in history at Loyola University and a visiting professor of integrated studies at the University of North Dakota. Gagnon is the author of Fiduciary for Seven Generations: The Tribal College Trustee and co...

Robert Vivian is a professor of English and creative writing at Alma College in Michigan and a core faculty member in the low-residency MFA program at the Vermont College of Fine Arts. He is the author of, most recently, The Least Cricket of Evening, and of the Tall Grass Trilogy, which includes Lamb Bright Saviors and Another Burning Kingdom, all available from the University of Nebraska Press.

Warren K. Urbom has been a judge on the U.S. District Court for the District of Nebraska since 1970. William Jay Riley is chief judge of the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals.

Andrew Menard is an independent writer, artist, and critic. His work has appeared in the Georgia Review, ¿Antioch Review, the New England Quarterly, Western American Literature, Journal of American Studies, and Oxford Art Journal. He is the author of Learning from Thoreau. ¿

Robert Vivian is a professor of English and creative writing at Alma College in Michigan and a core faculty member in the low-residency MFA program at Vermont College of Fine Arts. He is the author of, most recently, The Least Cricket of Evening and the Tall Grass Trilogy, which includes The Mover of Bones, Lamb Bright Saviors, and Another Burning Kingdom, all available from the University of Nebraska Press.

Provides a tantalizing new perspective on the Rocky Mountain fur trade and the role of homosexuality in shaping the American West

Conveys the irrepressible spirit of a man whose passion would give us a firsthand look at the men and women who settled the Great Plains

Roger Welsch is an adjunct professor of anthropology at the University of Nebraska¿Lincoln and the author of more than forty books, including Touching the Fire: Buffalo Dancers, the Sky Bundle, and Other Tales and My Nebraska, both available in Bison Books editions.

Robert Bigart is a librarian emeritus at Salish Kootenai College. He is the editor of Over a Century of Moving to the Drum: Salish Indian Celebrations on the Flathead Indian Reservation.

Loretta Fowler is a professor of anthropology at the University of Oklahoma. She is the author of Arapahoe Politics, 1851�78: Symbols in Crises of Authority (Nebraska 1982) and Shared Symbols, Contested Meanings: Gros Ventre Culture and History, 1778�84.

John W. W.¿Mann is a visiting assistant professor in the Department of History at the University of Wisconsin¿Eau Claire.