I Have Seen the Fire

Robert V. Hine is professor emeritus of history at the University of California, Irvine. His academic fields of interest include utopian communities and the cultural and intellectual history of the American West. He has authored or co-authored many books, the most recent of which is The American West: A New Interpretive History, with John Mack Faragher.

"Robert Hine has imagined his way into the world of nineteenth-century westering Americans in a story deepened by his extensive and sensitive understanding of the complexities of Western history.... The settings, in particular, are brilliantly done.... Moreover, we have a very vivid sense of how people actually lived and died in their bodies." - Virginia Scharff, author of Twenty Thousand Roads: Women, Movement, and the American West"