Born October 23, 1949, in Frankfurt, West Germany (now Germany); son of Paul Andrew (an American soldier) and Louise (a homemaker; maiden name, Johnson) Hutton; married Vicki Bauer, July 25, 1972 (divorced, August, 1984); children: Laura Bauer. Education: Indiana University, Bloomington, B.A., 1972, M.A., 1974, Ph.D., 1981. Memberships: Organization of American Historians, Western History Association, Historians Film Committee. Addresses: Office: Department of History, 1104 Mesa Vista Hall, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM 87131. E-mail: wha\@unm.edu.

• (Editor) Custer and His Times, Little Big Horn Associates (LaGrange Park, IL), 1981.
• Phil Sheridan and His Army, University of Nebraska Press (Lincoln, NE), 1985.
• (Editor) Henry Eugene Davies, Ten Days on the Plains, Southern Methodist University Press (Dallas, TX), 1985.
• Soldiers West: Biographies from the Military Frontier, University of Nebraska Press (Lincoln, NE), 1987.
• (Editor) The Custer Reader, University of Nebraska Press (Lincoln, NE), 1992.
• (Editor, with Robert C. Ritchie) Frontier and Region: Essays in Honor of Martin Ridge, University of New Mexico Press (Albuquerque, NM), 1997.

Contributor to periodicals, including TV Guide, American West, Texas Monthly, American History Illustrated, Frontier Times, and True West. Western History Quarterly, assistant editor, 1977-79, associate editor, 1979-84; New Mexico Historical Review, editor, 1984--.