Clyde Porter, noted student of Western Americana, assembled the material for Ruxton of the Rockies.
Mae Reed Porter, noted student of Western Americana, assembled the material for Ruxton of the Rockies.
John E. Sunder was the author of The Fur Trade on the Upper Missouri, 1840-1865 and Joshua Pilcher, Fur Trader and Indian Agent and editor of Matt Field on the Santa Fe Trail, all published by the University of Oklahoma Press.
Mark L. Gardner is the coeditor of The Mexican War Correspondence of Richard Smith Elliott (University of Oklahoma Press). A consultant to the National Park Service, he has written interpretive booklets for both Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument and Washita Battlefield National Historic Site.