Richard Henry Pratt (1840-1924) was a long-time
army officer and the founder of the Carlisle Indian School in
Carlisle, Pennsylvania
Robert M. Utley served in the National Park Service for 25
years in various capacities, including Chief Historian from 1964 to
1972. Since his retirement from the federal government in 1980, he
has devoted himself full-time to historical research and writing
with a specialty in the American West. He is author, among many
articles and books he has published, of Cavalier in Buckskin:
George Armstrong Custer and the Western Military Frontier, Revised
Edition; Billy the Kid: A Short and Violent Life; Lone Star Lawmen:
The Second Century of the Texas Rangers; and The Commanders: Civil
War Generals Who Shaped the American West. A founder of the Western
History Association, Utley has served on its governing council and
as its president.
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