Curt Locklear is an award-winning author, historian, teacher, education consultant, and public speaker. He has presented talks from Texas to Louisiana to Mississippi to Georgia to Minnesota. He generally plays his guitar and banjo at his speaking engagements and enlivens the presentation with songs, stories and jokes.

His second novel, Splintered, won the International Laramie Award for Civil War and Western fiction.

His banjo picking is featured at the beginning of the hit PBS TV show, “The Daytripper.”

He is a historian of elements of the Civil War west of the Mississippi – the Trans-Mississippi. He has presented to thousands.

He is related to the first wing-walker, Ormer Locklear. His father, Jack Locklear, trained a horse in the Kentucky Derby. His mother was a librarian. His heritage is Southern and Northern.