John Joseph Mathews (1895–1979) is the author of Wah’Kon-tah: The Osage and the White Man’s Road; Sundown; Talking to the Moon; Life and Death of an Oilman: The Career of E. W. Marland; The Osages: Children of the Middle Waters; Twenty Thousand Mornings: An Autobiography; and a children’s book, Old Three Toes and Other Tales of Survival and Extinction. Susan Kalter is a professor of American literature and Native American studies at Illinois State University. She is the editor of Twenty Thousand Mornings: An Autobiography and Old Three Toes and Other Tales of Survival and Extinction.