The Silent Brigade: The True Story of How One Woman Outwitted the Night Riders

About the author

RON ELLIOTT is a graduate of Eastern Kentucky University and the University of Kentucky, with academic training in math and computer science, and the author of more than eight books. His recent books include From Hilltop to Mountaintop, Sinister Influences and American El Dorado.

Elliott is a member of the Kentucky Humanities Council Speakers Bureau and has served on Kentucky’s community college system faculty. His earlier career included work on the historic Apollo missions.

When he’s not writing, Elliott draws on a personal family connection to the assassination of Kentucky’s would-be governor William Goebel, the event that first sparked his interest in history and led to his debut book, Assassination at the State House.