John P. Langellier received both a BA and MA from the University of San Diego in history/historical archeology with an emphasis on the Spanish borderlands and American West. He subsequently obtained his PhD from Kansas State University with an emphasis on military history. Thereafter, his public history career of over four decades included postings as a historian, museum and archives director, and instructor. Langellier is the author of more than twenty books, including Scouting with the Buffalo Soldiers: Lieutenant Powhatan Clarke, Frederic Remington, and the Tenth U.S. Cavalry in the Southwest (UNT Press); Fighting for Uncle Sam: Buffalo Soldiers in the Frontier Army; Bluecoats: The U.S. Army in the West, 1848–1897; Longknives: The U.S. Cavalry and Other Mounted Forces, 1848–1942; and Custer: The Man, the Myth, the Movies.