Richard E. Jensen is a retired senior research anthropologist with the Nebraska State Historical Society. He is the editor of numerous books, including Here You Have My Story: Eyewitness Accounts of the Nineteenth-Century Central Plains (Nebraska 2010); Voices of the American West, volume 1: The Indian Interviews of Eli S. Ricker, 1903–1919 (Nebraska 2005); and Voices of the American West, volume 2: The Settler and Soldier Interviews of Eli S. Ricker, 1903–1919 (Nebraska 2005).