About the Author and the Consultant

Kenneth McIntosh is the author of more than sixty books, including titles in the Mason Crest series North American Indians Today. He also teaches college classes. He and his wife live in Flagstaff, Arizona, a town with an abundance of heritage sites from the 1800s.

John Gillis is a Rutgers University Professor of History Emeritus. A graduate of Amherst College and Stanford University, he has taught at Stanford, Princeton, University of California at Berkeley, as well as Rutgers. Gillis is well known for his work in social history, including pioneering studies of age relations, marriage, and family. The author or editor of ten books, he has also been a fellow at both St. Antony’s College, Oxford, and Clare Hall, Cambridge.