Buddy Levy is the author of Conquistador: Hernan Cortes, King Montezuma, and the Last Stand of the Aztecs (Bantam Dell, 2008); American Legend: The Real-Life Adventures of David Crockett (Putnam, 2005, Berkley Books, 2006); and Echoes On Rimrock: In Pursuit of the Chukar Partri ...
In writing narrative adventure history, one of elements of research that is important to me is what I call "immersion research" (for lack of a formal nomenclature to describe it).