Harry W. Fritz is Professor of History at The University of Montana in Missoula.  He graduated from Missoula County High School in 1956, and attended Dartmouth College (A.B. 1960), The University of Montana (M.A. 1962), and Washington University in St. Louis (Ph.D. 1971).  Professor Fritz teaches courses in early American history, American military history, and Montana history.  He has been UM’s Teacher of the Year (1972 and 1999) and the Carnegie Foundation’s Montana Professor of the Year 2004.  In 1985 he won UM’s Distinguished Service Award, in 2003 the Governor’s Humanities Award, and in 2007 the Robert t. Pantzer award.  He has written and lectured widely on the Lewis and Clark Expedition.  He is the author of The Lewis and Clark Expedition (Greenwood 2004), Montana: Land of Contrast (1984; rev. ed., 2001), and co-editor of Montana and the West (1984), The Montana Heritage (1992), and The Montana Legacy (2002).  In 1985 and 1987 he served in the Montana House of Representatives, and in 1991 and 1993 in the Montana Senate.

Montana and the West: Essays in Honor of K. Ross Toole. Edited with Tex C. Myers. Boulder, CO: Pruett Pub., 1984.

The Montana Legacy: An Anthology of Historical Essays, Edited with Robert L. Swartout, Jr., and Mary Murphy. Helena: Montana Historical Society Press, forthcoming 2002.