Oliver Knight was for several years a newspaperman in Fort Worth, Texas, before an earlier commitment to history finally caught up with him. In 1951 he enrolled as a freshman in the University of Oklahoma, and two years later completed the B.A. degree with distinction. In 1953 he also published a full-statured book, Fort Worth: Outpost on the Trinity (University of Oklahoma Press), one year prior to obtaining an M.A. in history. He has since received the Ph.D. degree from the University of Wisconsin and is now assistant professor of journalism in Indiana University.

Following the Indian Wars is a good final chapter to the history of warfare between the Indians and the whites. It is not a romantic version of the struggle for the Great Plains. It is a straight account of the little known men who reported the progress of a hard and bitter war, which won the West but only at the expense of many lives and the destruction of the Indian way of life."" - San Francisco Examiner

Oliver Knight was for several years a newspaperman in Fort Worth, Texas, before an earlier commitment to history finally caught up with him. In 1951 he enrolled as a freshman in the University of Oklahoma, and two years later completed the B.A. degree with distinction. In 1953 he also published a full-statured book, Fort Worth: Outpost on the Trinity (University of Oklahoma Press), one year prior to obtaining an M.A. in history. He has since received the Ph.D. degree from the University of Wisconsin and is now assistant professor of journalism in Indiana University.

Following the Indian Wars is a good final chapter to the history of warfare between the Indians and the whites. It is not a romantic version of the struggle for the Great Plains. It is a straight account of the little known men who reported the progress of a hard and bitter war, which won the West but only at the expense of many lives and the destruction of the Indian way of life."" - San Francisco Examiner