About the Author

Dan Flores is the A. B. Hammond Professor Emeritus of Western History at the University of Montana, and the author of ten books on various aspects of western US history. Flores lives just outside Santa Fe, New Mexico.

Reviews

Finalist for the PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award
Winner of the Sigurd F. Olson Nature Writing Award
"A masterly synthesis of scientific research and personal observation."--Wall Street Journal
"[An] engaging study."--New Yorker
"[An] absorbing book.... Flores is a master storyteller."--Natural History
"Compassionate and captivating."--Christian Science Monitor
"A beautifully readable and meticulously researched book."--Forbes.com