Robert M. Bird

Robert Montgomery Bird (1803 - 1854) was an American novelist, playwright, and physician who wrote three tragedies—The Gladiator, Oraloosa, and The Broker of Bogota—and several novels, including Calavar, The Infidel, The Hawks of Hawk Hollow, Peter Pilgrim, and Nick of the Woods, in the first two of which he gives graphic and accurate details and descriptions of Mexican history.