William S. Kiser
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William S. Kiser

Civil War Wild West United States
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Billy Kiser received his Ph.D. from Arizona State University and is currently a Professor of History at Texas A&M University-San Antonio. He is the author of six books: "The Business of Killing Indians: Scalp Warfare and the Violent Conquest of North America" (Yale University Press, 2025), "Illusions of Empire: The Civil War and Reconstruction in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands" (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2022), "Coast-to-Coast Empire: Manifest Destiny and the New Mexico Borderlands" (University of Oklahoma Press, 2018); "Borderlands of Slavery: The Struggle over Captivity and Peonage in the American Southwest" (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2017); "Dragoons in Apacheland: Conquest and Resistance in Southern New Mexico, 1846-1861" (University of Oklahoma Press, 2013), "Turmoil on the Rio Grande: The Territorial History of the Mesilla Valley, 1846-1865" (Texas A&M University Press, 2011).
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