David N. Wetzel spent twenty-six years with the Colorado Historical Society as a writer, historical interpreter, editor, and director of the publications program. He is the author of I Looked in the Brook and Saw a Face: Images of Childhood in Early Colorado, coauthor of Robert S. Roeschlaub: Architect of the Emerging West, 1843–1923, and a contributor to Cheyenne Dog Soldiers: A Ledgerbook History of Coups and Combat. He retired in 2006 and now lives in Kansas City, Missouri.