About the Author

Andrew E. Masich is President and CEO of the Smithsonian-affiliated Senator John Heinz History Center and teaches history at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh. He is author of The Civil War in Arizona: The Story of the California Volunteers, 1861-1865 and coauthor of Cheyenne Dog Soldiers: A Ledgerbook History of Coups and Combat and Halfbreed: The Remarkable True Story of George Bent.