John Mack Faragher

John Mack Faragher is Arthur Unobskey Professor of History, Professor of American Studies, and Director of the Howard R. Lamar Center for the Study of Frontiers and Borders and Chair of the American Studies Program. His books include Women and Men on the Overland Trail (1979); Sugar Creek: Life on the Illinois Prairie (1986); Daniel Boone: The Life and Legend of an American Pioneer (1992); The American West: A New Interpretive History (2000); and A Great and Noble Scheme: The Expulsion of the French Acadians (2005). His graduate courses include seminars in the history of the American West.