About the Author

Ralph A. Wooster was named Distinguished Professor of History Emeritus by Lamar University in 2006. Author or editor of eleven books, including Civil War Texas (TSHA, 1999), Wooster is also co-author of Texas & Texans, a widely used seventh grade history text now in its sixth edition. He is a fellow and past president of the Texas State Historical Association and the East Texas Historical Association, as well as recipient of numerous teaching awards.

Robert Wooster is Regents Professor of History at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi, USA where he has taught since 1986. A Fellow and past president of the Texas State Historical Association, he has received several teaching awards and is author, editor, or co-editor of fourteen books, most recently The American Military Frontiers: The United States Army in the West, 1783–1900, which received the Western History Association’s Robert M. Utley Award.