Durwood Ball is the editor of the New Mexico Historical Review and an associate professor of history. He received his Ph.D. in history from the University of New Mexico in 1994 and worked for nearly a decade as an acquisitions editor for the University of New Mexico Press. He published Army Regulars on the Western Frontier, 1848-1861 in 2001, and, with Paul Andrew Hutton, coedited a second edition of Soldiers West: Biographies from the Military Frontier in 2009. In addition, he has published numerous articles and book chapters on frontier and western military history. He is currently writing a biography of the old frontier dragoon/cavalry officer Maj. Gen. Edwin Vose Sumner.