Jeff is a well-published author on the Plains Indian wars in Colorado, Kansas and Nebraska. Jeff's great-great uncle was with the 3rd Colorado Cavalry at Sand Creek, and was credited by his commanding officer for killing White Antelope. Jeff's family has been in Colorado since 1859.

Education:

University of Colorado, Boulder: Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Dec. 1998. Major: Philosophy (MA, 1993)

Baylor University, Waco, TX: Master of Arts (MA), Dec. 1976. Major: Philosophy

Colorado State University at Pueblo: Bachelor of Science (BS), June 1975. Major: Psychology and Philosophy

St. John's Military School, Salina, Kansas, 1967-1971

Publications:

Books:

Dog Soldier Justice: The Ordeal of Susanna Alderdice in The Kansas Indian War, Lincoln County Historical Society, October, 2003; Reprinted 2009 with the University of Nebraska Press as a Bison Book, with new Foreword and Preface

Custer into the West, with the Journal and Maps of Lieutenant Henry Jackson, Upton and Sons, Publishers, January, 2009

Edited, John O. Nelson, Hume's "New Scene of Thought" and the Several Faces of David Hume in the Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion, University Press of America, December, 2009

Cheyenne War: Indian Raids on the Roads to Denver, 1864-1869, Aberdeen Books/Logan County Historical Society, December, 2013

Indian Raids and Massacres: Essays on the Central Plains Indian War, Caxton Press, 2020