Paul A. Thomas is a library specialist at the University of Kansas with a doctoral degree in library and information management from Emporia State University. He has long been fascinated with the history of Kansas during the territorial and Civil War periods. His first book, Haunted Lawrence (2017), focused on the paranormal folklore surrounding Lawrence, Kansas. Matt M. Matthews is a former military historian with the U.S. Army's Combat Studies Institute (CSI) and a former U.S. Army senior military analyst. Matthews is the author of several CSI Press publications, including The Posse Comitatus Act and The United States Army (2006), Operation AL FAJR: A Study in Army and Marine Corps Joint Operations (2007), The U.S. Army on the Mexican Border (2007) and We Were Caught Unprepared: The 2006 Hezbollah-Israeli War (2008). Matthews has also coauthored numerous scholarly articles on the Civil War in the Trans-Mississippi region.