R Eli Paul Editor & Author

John D. McDermott (1935-2016) was a historian and administrator with the National Park Service and the President's Advisory Council on Historic Preservation. His numerous published books and articles on the American West include Red Cloud's War: The Bozeman Trail, 1866-1868.

R. Eli Paul heads the Missouri Valley Special Collections at the Kansas City Public Library, Kansas City, Missouri. He is the author of Blue Water Creek and the First Sioux War, 1854-1856, coauthor of Eyewitness at Wounded Knee, and editor of the Autobiography of Red Cloud: War Leader of the Oglalas.

Sandra J. Lowry (1943-2016) was a librarian for more than thirty years in the Research Library at the Fort Laramie National Historic Site.