Robert A. Clark

Robert A. Clark is Assistant Director of the University of Oklahoma Press and Publisher of the Arthur H. Clark Company, an imprint of the University of Oklahoma Press. He has devoted his career to the development, editing, and publishing of research and documentary materials on the history of America, and particularly the West, since 1970.

Prior to joining the University of Oklahoma Press in 2006, Bob was president and editor-in-chief of the Clark Company, founded by his grandfather in 1902. A graduate of Humboldt State University, Arcata, California, he is author of The Killing of Chief Crazy Horse: three eye-witness views and The Arthur H. Clark Company, a Bibliography and History.

Over the course of his career he has served as editor, designer, and publisher of several hundred books and journals, including the multi-volume series Covered Wagon Women (with editor Kenneth L. Holmes), Kingdom in the West (with editor Will Bagley), and Before Gold (with editors Rose Marie Beebe and Robert Senkewicz).

Bob is an active member of a number of historical organizations, including the Western History Association, the Oregon-California Trails Association, the Mormon History Association, Western Writers of America, and Westerners International.