Kent Brooks is the author of "Old Boston: As Wild As They Come," has worked in higher education managing Information Technology and Distance Learning departments for colleges in New Mexico, Oklahoma and Wyoming for more than 20 years.Growing up in Springfield, Colorado he listened to southeast Colorado stories about broomcorn, the dust bowl and cowboys of the large cattle companies. He is a long time blogger on various technology topics for his own blog KentBrooks.com as well as the local history blog Bacacountyhistory.com which covers topics about Baca County, Colorado, the most southeast county in Colorado. He currently works for Casper College in Casper, Wyoming.