Buckley T. Foster

Dr. Buckley T. Foster, PhD is a Nineteenth-Century Southern and Arkansas History Senior Lecturer at the University of Central Arkansas. His first book, Sherman’s Mississippi Campaign, started as his dissertation at Mississippi State University. His latest monograph, So Great Was the Slaughter: Market Hunters, Sportsmen, and Wildlife Conservation in Arkansas, covers the end of market hunting, the birth of the modern sportsman, and the origins of wildlife conservation in Arkansas, 1800-1925. The University of Alabama Press has published both. His next research project involves the Federal side of early wildlife conservation, the Migratory Bird Law/Act, and the fight between non-resident sportsmen and market hunters at Big Lake in Arkansas. Presently, he and co-editor Chris Mortenson have edited the diary of one of Stonewall Jackson’s colonels (one believed lost for over forty years), which the University of Tennessee Press is reviewing. His website and blog, arkansaswildlifehistory dot com, contain images and research about Arkansas’s rich hunting, fishing, and conservation history. He has written for Arkansas Wildlife, Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, Arkansas Historical Quarterly, and Greenhead Magazine.