About the Author

Born and raised in Hettinger, North Dakota, Gary E. Skogen, a Vietnam veteran, is retired from the Los Angeles Police Department. He did active duty in the U.S. Army from January 1966 to September 1973 and served in Vietnam from February 1971 to January 1972. Clay S. Jenkinson, well known for his historical portrayals of Thomas Jefferson and Meriwether Lewis, is the editor of A Vast and Open Plain: The Writings of the Lewis and Clark Expedition in North Dakota, 1804-1806 and author of Becoming Jefferson's People: Re-inventing the American Republic in the Twenty-first Century.