Dayton Duncan is the author of fourteen books. For more than thirty years he has collaborated with Ken Burns as a writer and producer of historical documentaries, including The West, Lewis & Clark: The Journey of the Corps of Discovery, The Dust Bowl, Country Music, The National Parks: America’s Best Idea, and most recently The American Buffalo, broadcast on PBS in October. For his writing he has received two Emmy awards, a Writers Guild of America award, four Spur awards from the Western Writers of America, four Wrangler awards from the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum, and other honors, including being named an Honorary Park Ranger by the National Park Service.