About the Author

John S. Tomer, who is a Research Associate at the Oklahoma Museum of Natural History, is an experienced ornithologist and author of numerous articles on Oklahoma birds.

Michael J. Brodhead, Professor Emeritus of History at the University of Nevada, Reno, is a Historian in the Office of History, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Alexandria, Virginia. He is the author of David J. Brewer: The Life of a Supreme Court Justice, 1837-1910 and coeditor and annotator of A Naturalist in Indian Territory: The Journals of S. W. Woodhouse, 1849-1850, also published by the University of Oklahoma Press.