Dr. Tom Rust is an Associate Professor of History and a native Montanan who graduated from the University of Minnesota, with a BA in History in 1992. He received his MA in History from the University in Denver in 1995 where his work in American military history, more specifically the 19th century west, has been published in the journal “Military History of West.” He completed his Ph.D. at the University of Leicester in 2006. He has conducted and published both historical and archaeological research in a variety of areas from ancient Rome to the American West. Dr. Rust has taught at Montana State University Billings since 1999.