Bruce Shackleford

About the presenter

Bruce M. Shackelford- Bruce Shackelford has worked as a museum curator and historian since the late 1970s. After graduate school at the University of Oklahoma his first museum position was working at the Creek Council House (1878), Okmulgee, OK, a National Historic Landmark now owned by the Muscogee-Creek Nation of Oklahoma. He later worked on contract for several museums spending the majority of his career as the Texas History Curator for the Witte Museum in San Antonio scripting and creating dozens of exhibits and writing several books for Texas A&M University Press, Maverick Press and TSHA Press. Shackelford has appeared on PBS Antiques Roadshow television series as an appraiser of Native American art and artifacts related to the trans-Mississippi American West for 31 seasons, since season 1.