Kenneth Riley honed his technical skills as an illustrator during the post-World War II era. Working for publications such as the Saturday Evening Post, McCall's, Redbook and Reader's Digest, he excelled in creating dynamic historical scenes that absorbed the reader in dynamic design and stunning color.
Riley moved to the west in the early 1970s and began researching the early journalists who wrote about the pre-reservation Native Americans. Today, his dramatic presentations of life and death on the frontier rank him as one of the west's most imaginative interpreters.
This first book on the Arizoan artist accompanied a retrospective exhibit at the Eiteljorg Museum of American Indian and Western Art, showcasing over one hundred color plates of Riley's work.