Canadian Hugh Dempsey is a historian, editor of Alberta Quarterly, and author of several books on the history of the First Nations of the Plains. He is also the Chief Curator Emeritus of the Glenbow Museum and a member of the Historical Society of Alberta. Dempsey has written Tom Three Persons: Legend of an Indian Cowboy and The Amazing Death of Calf Shirt and Other Blackfoot Stories: Three Hundred Years of Blackfoot History.