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Mark Lee Gardner
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Mark Lee Gardner has written a broad range of books and articles on the American West, including a number of interpretive guides for the National Park Service on subjects ranging from George Custer to Geronimo. As a historian and consultant, he has worked with museums, historic sites, and humanities councils throughout the West. He has been a visiting professor in the Southwest Studies department at Colorado College in Colorado Springs. He lives with his family in Cascade, Colorado.
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Series
Books:
Shot All To Hell, August 2013Hardcover / e-Book
To Hell On A Fast Horse, February 2010
Hardcover
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Mark Lee Gardner’s ‘The Deceive is Separation that’s Lasts’
By Christopher Miskimon
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Mark Lee Gardneris the author of “To Hell on a Fast Horse” and “Shot All to Hell,” which received multiple awards, including a Spur Award from Western Writers of America. His expertise as an authority on the American West has led to appearances on PBS’s “American Experience,” the History Channel, AMC, the Travel Channel, and on NPR. In addition to his several books, he’s written for National Geographic History, American Heritage, the Los Angeles Times, True West, and American Cowboy. He holds an MA in American Studies from the University of Wyoming and lives with his family at the foot of Pikes Peak.
SunLit: Tell us this book’s backstory. What inspired you to write it? Where did the story/theme originate?
Mark Lee Gardner: Ever since I visited Little Bighorn Battlefield as a boy, I’ve been interested in this iconic fight between George Armstrong Custer and his Seventh Cavalry and the Lakota and Cheyenne warriors of Crazy Horse, Sitting Bull and other Native leaders. However, my fascination as a boy centered on Custer and the mystery of his defeat, the “mystery” being that there was no one left to “tell the tale.”
Of course, as I grew older, I realized that many, many individuals were left to tell the tale: the Indian victors. It’s a side that I