Michael M. Casler, a former park ranger with the
National Park Service, is currently working as an independent
historical researcher. Casler is the author of Steamboats of the
Fort Union Fur Trade (1999) and editor of The Original Journals of
Charles Larpenteur (2007). He has also written numerous articles on
the Upper Missouri fur trade from his home in Williston, North
Dakota.
W. Raymond Wood has a Ph.D. in anthropology from
the University of Oregon and taught anthropology at the University
of Missouri for nearly four decades. Among his many publications
are Prologue to Lewis and Clark (2002), Twilight of the Upper
Missouri River Fur Trade (2008), and A White-Bearded Plainsman: The
Memoirs of Archaeologist W. Raymond Wood (2011). He is also the
co-author of Fort Clark and Its Indian Neighbors (2011). He lives
in Columbia, Missouri, with his wife, Carolee.
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