Biographical Information

I am a specialist in the history of the American West, with a particular interest in American Indian history.

Major Publications

Prairie Populism: The Fate of Agrarian Radicalism in Kansas, Nebraska, and Iowa, 1880-1892 (University Press of Kansas, 1993)

The Plains Sioux and U.S. Colonialism from Lewis and Clark to Wounded Knee (Cambridge University Press, 2004)

The Lakotas and The Black Hills (Viking, forthcoming 2009)

Current Research and Writing

"The Question of Genocide in U. S. History, 1776-1890"