Robert E. Lee in Texas

Carl Coke Rister was a research professor of history at the University of Oklahoma. His many books include Southern Plainsmen; Border Captives: The Traffic in Prisoners by the Southern Plains Indians, 1835-1875; Land Hunger: David L. Payne and the Oklahoma Boomers; and Border Command: General Phil Sheridan in the West. 

Jerry Thompson is Regents Professor of History at Texas A&M International University and the author of numerous books on the history of Texas and the American Southwest, including Cortina: Defending the Mexican Name in Texas.