- Professor of History at
the University of New Mexico
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- Received the Ray Allen
Billington Prize from the Organization of American Historians, the Evans
Biography Award, and the Spur Award from Western Writers of America for
Phil
Sheridan and His Army (1985).
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- Scripts for the 2001 and 2003 History Channel two-hour specials "Boone & Crockett: The Hunter Heroes" and "Carson & Cody: The Hunter Heroes" both received Spur Awards for Best Documentary from the Western Writers of America while his 2002 script for the National Park Service film "Daniel Boone and the Westward Movement" won him a third Western Heritage Award in 2003.
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- The
Custer Reader was a History Book Club selection and received the
John M. Carroll Literary Award from the Little Big Horn Associates.
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- Mead Distinguished Research
Fellow in American History at the Huntington Library for 1998
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- Written, appeared in,
or narrated over 150 television documentaries on CBS, NBC, PBS, Discovery,
Disney Channel, TBS, TNN, A&E, and the History Channel
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- Historical consultant
for the Ron Howard film The Missing in 2003
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