David Dary is winner of the Cowboy Hall of Fame Wrangler Award, two Western Writers of America Spur Awards, the Westerners International Best Nonfiction book Award, and the Owen Wister Award for lifetime achievement from the Western Writers of America. He worked for CBS News and NBC News in Texas and Washington, D.C., and for many years taught journalism, first at the University of Kansas and then as head of the School of Journalism at the University of Oklahoma, from which he recently retired. He is the author of fourteen previous books, including Cowboy Culture (see page 41), The Santa Fe Trail: Its History, Legends and Lore, and The Oregon Trail: An American Saga.
A wide-ranging, highly accessible, and valuable contribution to the store of knowledge about the Great Plains by one of the leading authorities on the American West. Jim Hoy, author of Flint Hills Cowboys: Tales of the Tallgrass Prairie Praise for David Dary, award-winning chronicler of life on the frontier plains ""Dary understands the double legacy of the real West - hard fact and rich myth - and he savors it."" Time ""Dary is one of our best chroniclers of the Old West."" Publishers Weekly ""Dary's works are bound to become staples in collections about the Old West."" Booklist
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