About the Author

Jerome A. Greene is a retired historian with the National Park Service. He is the author or editor of many books, including Battles and Skirmishes of the Great Sioux War, 1876-1877: The Military View; Washita: The U.S. Army and the Southern Cheyennes, 1867-1869; Nez Perce Summer, 1877: The U.S. Army and the Nee-Me-Poo Crisis; The Guns of Independence: The Siege of Yorktown, 1781; and most recently, Beyond Bear’s Paw: The Nez Perce Indians in Canada. He resides in Colorado.