Dr. Jack August Jr. is an academic and public historian of the American West. Raised in Arizona, August says, “You always had a sense of optimism growing up in Phoenix.” He began his love affair with the history of the West under the tutelage of Yale University’s renowned Western historian and president emeritus Howard R. Lamar. From Yale, August went to the University of Arizona for his M.A., and the University of New Mexico for his Ph.D., where he studied under his mentor, 20th-centur
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