Frederick J. Chiaventone – is an award-winning novelist, screenwriter, and commentator. His novel of Red Cloud’s War “Moon of Bitter Cold” won the coveted Western Heritage Award while his novel of the Little Bighorn “A Road We Do Not Know” won the Ambassador William F. Colby Award and was nominated for a Pulitzer. Fred’s articles appear regularly in the New York Post, Los Angeles Times and Chicago Tribune. A retired army officer, Chiaventone taught counter-terrorist operations and guerrilla warfare at the U.S. Army's Command and General Staff College and was contributing editor for the Oxford Companion to American Military History and for Greenwood Press’ Historical Dictionary of the United States Army. An advisor to director Ang Lee for his film Ride With The Devil Fred has also appeared on PBS' The American Experience and on The History Channel. Chiaventone lives in the small town from where Ben ’Stagecoach King’ Holladay ran his Overland Stage Empire and a young Buffalo Bill Cody clerked in his uncle’s store. During the Civil War this area was a hotbed of activity for the guerrilla bands led by William Quantrill and ‘Bloody Bill’ Anderson.

Fred's most recent article on Confederate guerrilla leader 'Bloody Bill' Anderson appears in the January 2008 issue of Cowboys & Indians Magazine.