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“I
believe that the ongoing factual narrative of real-world
history makes today’s much-loved TV “reality shows” look
pretty lame by comparison. In the fields that I
specialize in, such as the development of frontier
America, the fur trade, overland trails, gold rushes,
cattle ranching, and warfare on this continent in the
eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, events often took
on the aspects of a riveting narrative that even skilled
fiction writers are hard-pressed to surpass. I celebrate
this, and employ as an integral part of my pedagogy the
extensive experience I have had as an historical
interpreter and “living history” program developer for
U.S. and state park services and the United States Army,
as well as relevant artifacts and material culture, to
enhance and illuminate historical understanding of
topical themes in the classroom.”
Teaching Experience
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2003-Present Professor of History;
Editor and Art Director,
Richland College
and the R. Jan LeCroy Center
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2008-Present Adjunct Lecturer of
History, Southern Methodist University
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1995-Present Instructor, Southern
Methodist University divisions of
Continuing and
Professional Studies, and Graduate
Liberal
Studies
Education
Southern Methodist University
Master of Arts in History awarded in 2001
Ph.D. in History awarded in 2007
Ph.D. Dissertation title: “Ciboleros! Hispanic Buffalo
Hunters on the Southern Plains”
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1990-1992 Richland
College Dallas,
Texas
Certificate: Advanced Desktop Publishing
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1972-1978 The Elliott School of International
Affairs, George Washington University Washington,
DC.
Master of Arts in International Affairs awarded in
1978
Master's thesis title: “Rebellion and Insurgency in
Angola 1961‑197
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1972
The American University
Washington, DC.
African area affairs, comparative political institutions,economics
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1971 California State College
Fullerton, California
African history, international developmental
economics
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1967‑1969 Chapman
University Orange, California
Major subject: History;
Minor subject: Political Science
Graduated, Bachelor of Arts, cum laude
Awards and Service
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2006-2007 Executive Director, Zebulon Montgomery Pike National
Bicentennial Commission
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2004-2005
Innovation of the Year, Dallas County Community
College District—Richland College, for the
Special Texas Edition of
America Past &
Present
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2003 Order of Saint Barbara, U.S. Army Field Artillery
Association
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1972‑1973
Scottish Rite
Fellow, State of California
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1967 Inducted: Phi Alpha Theta National History Honor
Fraternity
Publications and Papers
Ciboleros! Hispanic Buffalo Hunters on
the Southern Plains.
Publication as a book slated for fall, 2012, by the
Museum of the Fur Trade
Editor, Art Director, and contributing author,
Special Texas Edition of the U.S. history textbook
series U.S. A Narrative History (2012 edition, 2
volumes, McGraw-Hill)
“A Wild, Pell-Mell Ride With The People Who Reinvented
Buffalo Hunting.” Fur Trade Quarterly, Winter,
2011
Contributing author to the eleven-volume series The
Old West: History and Heritage, ed. Edward
Countryman (New York: Marshall Cavendish, 2008)
Editor, Art Director, and contributing author,
Special Texas Edition of the U.S. history textbook
series America Past & Present (2004 and 2007
editions, 4 volumes, Pearson Publishing)
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