BRIAN PATRICK DUGGAN

Brian Patrick Duggan, M.A., is the author of General Custer, Libbie Custer and Their Dogs: A Passion for Hounds from the Civil War to Little Bighorn and the award-winning Saluki: The Desert Hound and the English Travelers Who Brought It to the West – the result of over 14 years of research in archives, museums, and libraries in three countries.

 

The editor for McFarland Publishers’ Dogs in Our World series, Brian is a retired university technology educator with 33 years experience in the University of California and California State University systems.

 

A canine historian, he has published numerous articles that have been published internationally and in AKC Family Dog, AKC Gazette, Dogs in Review, Sighthound Review, Show Sight, Saluki International, American Saluki Association Newsletter, Classic Saluki, The Private Journey, and Greasy Grass: The Journal of the Custer Battlefield Historical & Museum Association.

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Together with his wife, Wendy (also an AKC judge), they have had Salukis for forty years under the Kyzyl Kum prefix with 81 owned and/or bred, 35 show champions, and several grand champions to their credit. He and Wendy were honored with the American Saluki Association’s Top Breeder Award for 1994.

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During his university special event support days, Brian has had the pleasure of setting microphones for astronaut Kathy Sullivan, astronomer Carl Sagan, author Tom Wolf, and the amazing Dr. Stephen Hawking.

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