Encountering North America: Profiles of Frontiersmen

David MacDonald is professor emeritus of history at Illinois State University. He received a BA from California State University at Fresno and a PhD from the University of Minnesota.
Raine Waters is an instructor at Heartland Community College. She received a BS and MS from Illinois State University. They are coauthors of Kaskaskia: The Lost Capital of Illinois, We Could Perceive No Sign of Them: Failed Colonies in North America, 1526-1689, and Neither Hee Nor Any of His Companie Did Return Againe: Failed Colonies in the Caribbean and Latin America, 1492-1865.