Faulk, Odie B.

Historian, author, educator. Born in 1933 in Winnsboro, Texas. Received B.A., M.A., and Ph. D. from Texas Tech University. Taught at Texas A & M, University of Arizona, Arizona State, and Arizona Western before becoming head of the history department at Oklahoma State University in 1972. Author and co-author of numerous articles and books, including "Land of Many Frontiers" (1968) and "North America Divided: the Mexican War" (1972), both of which were nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. The latter won the Cowboy Hall of Fame Western Heritage Award in 1972.

Biographical note: Odie Faulk taught at Texas A & M, University of Arizona, Arizona State University, and Arizona Western before becoming head of the Oklahoma State University history department in 1972. He was supervisor of publications at the Arizona Historical Society in 1965. He has written numerous articles and books, primarily about Arizona and the Southwest.