Jack Matthews is a former professor of history and anthropology and a recipient of a National Endowment for the Humanities grant in Science, Technology, and Human Values. He completed archaeological field school at Ghost Ranch, near Abiquiu, New Mexico, and has written about the environmental influence on Georgia O'Keeffe's art. An outdoorsman and mountaineer, he has climbed the Truchas, Pedernal, and San Mateo Peaks. Currently, he observes forests and mesas in all seasons and trades "the old way" with his Puebloan friends. He is the author of Death at La Osa, also from Sunstone Press.