Stephen C. LeSueur

Stephen C. LeSueur is a former journalist and magazine editor. He is the author of "Life and Death on the Mormon Frontier: The Murders of Frank LeSueur and Gus Gibbons by the Wild Bunch" (Greg Kofford Books), a true story of the Wild West that overturns many myths of frontier bandits. His book, "The 1838 Mormon War in Missouri" (University of Missouri Press) won the 1987 Best Book award from the John Whitmer Historical Association. He has written extensively on Mormon history, including a chapter for "Excavating Mormon Pasts: The New Historiography of the Last Half Century" (Greg Kofford Books). He and his wife, Kathy, live in Arlington, Virginia.