John Gary Maxwell Author

John Gary Maxwell is the author of several books, including the Civil War Years in Utah: The Kingdom of God and the Territory That Did Not Fight, and Rob­ert Newton Baskin and the Making of Modern Utah. A retired professor of sur­gery at the University of Utah and University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, he now lives in Wilmington, NC. His Scottish ancestors emigrated to Utah with the 1856 Second Handcart Company. Several were called in 1900 to col­onize the Bighorn Basin.