Brian Leehan is a Minnesota freelance writer, journalist and author. He was a staff writer, editor, researcher and archivist with the Star Tribune newspaper in Minneapolis for nearly 20 years. His first book-length work, “Pale Horse at Plum Run: The First Minnesota at the Battle of Gettysburg,” won the 2003 Minnesota Book Award. He has a long format journalism piece, available on Kindle, called “Blood and Ink: The Fourth Estate at Third and Wabasha.” The historical monograph covers a violent incident in the streets of Territorial St. Paul between Minnesota’s first reporter/publisher/editor, James Madison Goodhue, and an irate reader. Leehan’s recently published “Roaring Bull: The 34th Infantry Division in the Global War on Terror” covers 16 years of nearly continual overseas combat deployments of the 34th Infantry. Comprised primarily of Minnesota and Iowa’s Army National Guard units, the “Red Bulls,” as the division is known, is headquartered in Rosemount, Minnesota, a suburb of St. Paul. The new book is available through the 34th Infantry Division Association’s website at http://www.34ida.org/paypal.html, where you can purchase it via your PayPal account, credit or debit card, or by sending a check or money order to the provided address.
