Savage Frontier: Rangers, Riflemen, and Indian Warfare in Texas, Volume I, 1835-1837 is written by Stephen L. Moore, a sixth-generation Texan. He also wrote the books Eighteen Minutes: The Battle of San Jacinto and the Texas Independence Campaign and Taming Texas: Captain William T. Sherman. Lone Star Service by Sadler's Wells. He currently resides in Lantana, Texas.