Stephen Aron is Professor and Robert N. Burr Department Chair of History at the University of California, Los Angeles, chair of the Institute for the Study of the American West at the Autry Museum of the American West, and author of How the West Was Lost: The Transformation of Kentucky from Daniel Boone to Henry Clay.
Brian W. Dippie is retired as Professor of History at the University of Victoria, British Columbia. The leading authority on Russell, he is the author of numerous books and articles on the history and art of the American West, including The Vanishing American: White Attitudes and U.S. Indian Policy and Charles M. Russell: Word Painter.
