The Overland Mail: 1849-1869
LeRoy R. Hafen(1893-1985) was Professor of History at the  University of Denver and Brigham Young University, Executive Director of  the State Historical Society of Colorado, and author/editor of numerous  books on the American West, includingRuxton of the Rockies, Fur  Trappers and Traders of the Far Southwest: Twenty Biographical Sketches,  and Handcarts to Zion: The Story of a Unique Western Migration,  1856-1860.Award-winning writerDavid Daryis retired as head of what is now the Gaylord College of Journalism at the University of Oklahoma. He has published numerous articles on the Old West and the plains region and authored eighteen previous books, includingCowboy Culture,True Tales of the Prairies and Plains, andFrontier Medicine.