Garrett Peck is an author, historian, and tour guide in Santa Fe, specializing in adventure travel and historic and cultural interpretation. He leads the Willa Cather’s Santa Fe tour, teaches stargazing, and leads many other tours.

The author of eight books about American history, Garrett’s latest is A Decade of Disruption: America in the New Millennium (2020). He is currently working on The Bright Edges of the World: Willa Cather and Her Archbishop, due out from University of New Mexico Press in February 2026.

Garrett has lectured for the Library of Congress, the National Archives, Smithsonian Associates, historical societies, and literary clubs. A native Californian, he graduated from the Virginia Military Institute and George Washington University and is a U.S. Army veteran.