John H. Monnett

Background

John H. Monnett was born on May 21, 1944, in Kansas City, United States.

Education

John Monnett received his doctorate in 1980 from the University of Northern Colorado in Higher Education Administration and History. He holds a Master of Arts in History from San Jose State University and a Bachelor of Arts in History from the University of Kansas.

Career

Monnett was a Cochise Country Community College instructor and instructor of Western and Native American history at Metropolitan State College of Denver. He also taught Western and Colorado history at the Metropolitan State College of Denver.

Monnett is the author of several books, including Massacre at Cheyenne Hole: Lieutenant Austin Henely and the Sappa Creek Controversy and Tell Them We Are Going Home: The Odyssey of the Northern Cheyennes.

Achievements

• Dr. John Monnett is an award-winning author. He has written or contributed to a number of books and hundreds of articles and book reviews on the history of the American W. He is the recipient of a 2010 Wrangler Award from the National Western Heritage Center. His provocative book, "Where a Hundred Soldiers Were Killed" was runner up for the Colorado Humanities Center for the Book's best non-fiction prize for 2009. In addition he has won the Coke award from Westerners International and given the Fred Rosenstock Lifetime Achievement Award from Denver Westerners.

Works

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  • The Battle of Beecher Island and the Indian War of 1867-1869

    (Featuring original reminisces of American Indian and whit...)

    1992
  • Tell Them We Are Going Home: The Odyssey of the Northern Cheyennes

    (Tell Them We Are Going Home details the courageous journe...)

    2001
  • Colorado Profiles: Men and Women Who Shaped the Centennial State

    (This popular volume presents the exciting history of Colo...)

    1996
  • Where a Hundred Soldiers Were Killed: The Struggle for the Powder River Country in 1866 and the Making of the Fetterman Myth

    (The Powder River country of what is now north central Wyo...)

    2008
  • Cutthroat and Campfire Tales

    (To cast a fly on high country waters in the West is to be...)

    1988
  • Rocky Mountain Christmas: Yuletide Stories of the West

    (Even under the most extreme conditions our pioneer ancest...)

    1987
  • Eyewitness to the Fetterman Fight: Indian Views

    (In Eyewitness to the Fetterman Fight, award-winning histo...)

    2017
  • Massacre at Cheyenne Hole: Lieutenant Austin Henley and the Sappa Creek Controversy

    (On the morning of April 23, 1875, H Company, 6th U.S. Cav...)

    1999

Views

A native of the West, John H. Monnett pursues his interest in the development of the western United States by teaching the history of the West and the Native Americans who live there, as well as by collecting stories and researching the events that helped form this part of America’s past. Beginning with his first book, which offers profiles of some of the early settlers of the West, and continuing with his most recent publication, which details the journey of the Northern Cheyenne to their homelands in the Powder River Country, Monnett retells history through various perspectives.

Connections

Monnett is married. His wife’s name is Linda. They have a son, David.

Wife:

Linda Monnett

Son:

David Monnett

References

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