it's his book that jeremy mentioned the other day, "phil sheridan and the army" that received the prize from the american group of historians, and he's also the ed to have several books that we all have on our shelves, "western heritage," "roundup," "frontier and region," "the custer reader" and "soldiers west" as well as a civil war series that he did for wantium back in the '90s. he started in -- in many ways reaching on shaping western historical scholarship when he was an associate editor at the western historical quarterly and then editor of "the new mexico historical review." now, he has written several short films, dozens of television documentaries and he's appeared upon, if this is to be believed, over 300 television programs on major networks, public television and cable networks, as well. you may have known or seen the work that he did behind the scenes as a historical consultant on ron howard's film "the missing." he also worked on jon favreau's "cowboys and aliens" and, again, recently on gavin hockey for's "jane got a gun." he's been very active as a public historian makin