Research and Analysis Division of the U.S. Army Center of Military History. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Toledo. During thirteen years as a historian for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, he produced a variety of publications on engineer exploration of the West as well as the manuscript for this book. He also has written extensively on black soldiers in the trans-Mississippi West. iv Ittripljirevs l'Itgiiier C enter-Supp~lort Actli~IN a' perWfectl)ionist as %%(-lf as it

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... replodce )(l ll(l -picturles. O utside th Corp ( f Enl)5dF; gineers I also foutnd1( people wil linig to 1 )rovidle assistanice. Thanks go to I IaNAwtood I lantisel and Waynet( Upshur if' the Middle East T1ask G routp ill the ( fficc of tihe Se(IetarV of Icefetise: Fred Periiell of the Wash in gtoni Regiontal Arch iVes ill Suititland. Mar~laiid, Bill 1 lel tdalil lit the ( )fibe of Ali b rce HIS,-tor\. Dais\-Walker of IDefense Secturity Assista the A~glII( ; and Ve-ritijodaJo (ail Ii~lJoyce Rhod~e, firt at the Federal Emcnrgenc\ Manitagenilent Agency andl later In thc Office of' the. Secretaryv of IDefenrse. Naomi Kogon Steinblerg also helped me tinderstatid SOmeI o1' the nuances of, tihe Israeli press. At the( U.S. Armyv Center of Militarv' II jstorv, I have been fi Iltltiate to work with Morris MacGregoi, joh in Elsberg. :at ien ieI Ileenrin , Arthur S. H ardviman, IDianw Arms, and~ Shecrry IDo wd\. WAithouit them there would he no( boo0k. I wouild also like to thank conltractor Susanl C arro ll for fil e indl~ex. Mayo-tepeopi~c mfenitiotned ab~ove andl~ somie others also redand coummen ted oni varyimist drafts oIf thle imanuscrip)t. H ir thiis particularly Imipo rtanit service-and especialIY orierouLs task-t hcv (leServe.( special reco~gnitionl. Thianks go to Bill Baldwin.