Mary Adams is President and cofounder of ISIM University, an online graduate school based in Denver, Colorado. She holds degrees in History and Business.

Elwood Bakken is an independent scholar in Bozeman, Montana, and shipping manager for Action Lighting. He has published in Montana: The Magazine of Western History and Carve.

Michelle Bean is a California native. In 1991 she graduated from the University of California, Irvine, with a bachelor's degree in Political Science and a minor in History. Currently, she is finishing her secondary school teaching credential at California State University, Fullerton.

Brenda Bitgood is an independent scholar and graduate of California State University, Fullerton, with a B.A. in History and a B.A. in American Studies. She currently resides in Anaheim, California, with her husband and her daughter.

Renae Moore Bredin currently teaches in the Women's Studies Program at California State University, Fullerton. Her publications include essays on Native American women writers, Elsie Clews Parsons, and gender and technology.

Anne M. Butler is the editor of The Western Historical Quarterly and Professor of History at Utah State University, Logan. She is the author of Daughters of Joy, Sisters of Misery: Prostitutes in the American West, 1865–90 (1985), Gendered Justice in the American West: Women Prisoners in Men's Penitentiaries (1997), Uncommon Common Women (1996) with Ona Siporin, and The Frontiers and Catholic Identities (1999) with Michael Engh.

Sharon Snow Carver is Adjunct Professor at Utah State University, Tooele, and holds a Ph.D. from Brigham Young University in American History. She has done extensive research on women's clubs in the Intermountain West and contributed to the Utah Historical Quarterly as well as other publications.

Henry Fay Cheung is a doctoral student in history at the University of California, Riverside.

Kevin Christy teaches history in a Christian school in Orange County, California.

Tiffany E. Dalpe is a doctoral student in ethics and the history of philosophy at the University of Memphis.

Maureen Woodard Dana teaches at Sacramento City College and holds a Ph.D. in American Literature from the Claremont Graduate School. Her research includes work on captivity narratives of the 17th and 18th centuries, female short story writers of the 1930s, and late 20th-century feminist fiction and theory.

Clark Davis was Associate Professor of History at California State University, Fullerton, author of Company Men: White Collar Life and Corporate Cultures in Los Angeles, 1892–1941 (2000), and coeditor of The Human Tradition in California (2002). Clark passed on February 4, 2003, at the age of 36.

Susan Badger Doyle is an independent scholar in Pendleton, Oregon, and the author of Journeys to the Land of Gold: Emigrant Diaries from the Bozeman Trail, 1863–1866 (2000).

Randal Fulkerson is Adjunct Professor of History and Humanities at California Baptist University-High Desert Campus. His graduate education focused on late 19th-century to early 20th-century American and church history.

Victor W. Geraci is Associate Professor of History at Central Connecticut State University, New Britain, and the author of a forthcoming book, Salud.

Joan V. Greenwood is Professor Emerita of English and Comparative Literatures at California State University, Fullerton.

[Page xx]Vanessa Anne Gunther teaches history at a variety of institutions in Southern California and holds a Ph.D. in Native American History from the University of California, Riverside. She also works in the medical arts field.

Debra L. Gold Hansen is Associate Professor at San Jose State University's School of Library and Information Science and has a Ph.D. in American History from the University of California, Irvine.

Mary Hardy teaches history in Thailand at Assumption University. She continues to engage in historical research projects and is currently awaiting a publication coauthored with Dr. William Haddad in the journal Israeli Affair. She also is working with Dr. B. Carmon Hardy editing a new edition of a world civilizations primary sourcebook.

Angela E. Henderson is Professor of Reading at Fullerton College and author of “Fiction as Reality: ‘Lonesome Dove,’ the Law, and a Property-Holder's Society,” Journal of the West (Fall 2000).

Craig Hendricks teaches at Long Beach City College. He received both an M.A. and Ph.D. from the State University of New York, Stony Brook, focusing on modern Latin American history, and has published articles and edited four essay collections.

Lori S. Iacovelli is Lead Archives and Exhibits Assistant at the Whittier, California, Historical Society Museum.

Elizabeth Jameson holds the Imperial Oil & Lincoln McKay Chair in American Studies at the University of Calgary. Her publications include All That Glitters: Class, Conflict and Community in Cripple Creek, and two coedited books, The Women's West and Writing the Range: Race, Class and Culture in the Women's West.

Patricia Jimenez holds B.A.s from the University of California, Riverside, in History and Political Science. She is currently taking time off from graduate work in history. Her areas of interest include the Vietnam War, the antiwar movement, and protest music.

Mary L. Kelley is Assistant Professor of History at Lamar University. Her areas of specialization are modern United States, women, and Texas. She is currently working on a forthcoming book, Private Wealth, Public Good.

Scott Kesilis recently graduated with honors from California State University, Fullerton, with bachelor's degrees in Political Science and History. At present, he is taking a sabbatical from his studies.

Alexandra Kindell is a doctoral candidate at Iowa State University. She is interested in women's roles in rural life and agriculture, which she has explored in her teaching and during her tenure as assistant editor of Agricultural History.

Renee M. Laegreid teaches at Hastings College in Hastings, Nebraska, specializing in American western and cultural history. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Nebraska in 2002. Her recent publications focus on the evolution of the rodeo queen phenomena, and she is currently preparing a book for publication on that subject.

Neal Lynch is the Technical Services Manager at Cemex Concrete Division in Ontario, California, a graduate student in history at California State University, Fullerton, a member of Toastmasters International, a volunteer docent at the Lincoln Shrine Museum, and a teacher of U.S. citizenship at a local community center.

Sandra K. Mathews-Lamb teaches at Nebraska Wesleyan University, Lincoln. She finished her Ph.D. in 1998 at the University of New Mexico in History (American West and Latin America). Currently, she is completing a biography of Donna Joy McGladrey and a manuscript on Pueblo Indian land grants (1600 to 1870).

Mary M. McCulloch teaches in the undergraduate Religious Studies Department at Mount St. Mary's College, Los Angeles. Prior to receiving her graduate degree, she spent 15 years working for Allstate Insurance Company as an underwriter and marketing manager.

Becky Jo (Gesteland) McShane is Assistant Professor at Weber State University, where she teaches classes in technical communication, literature, and composition. Her publications include articles on women's southwestern autobiographies and case studies of business writing. Her current research explores the professional writing of anthropologists Gladys Reichard and Fanny Bandelier.

Melissa L. Miller is currently pursuing a graduate degree in history from California State University, [Page xxi]Fullerton, while working as a food server at Alcatraz Brewing Company. She received her bachelor's degree from CSUF in 2001.

Linda Frances Mollno is a Lecturer in U.S. History and California History at both California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, and California State University, Los Angeles, and is a doctoral candidate in history at the Claremont Graduate University. She is writing her dissertation on the Pasadena Community Playhouse.

Danelle Moon is Adjunct Professor in the History Department at Central Connecticut State University, teaching U.S. and Women's History, and is Archivist in Manuscripts and Archives, Yale University Library. She is a trained Public Historian, independent researcher and scholar, and most recently published chapters in Law in the Western United States (2000) and California History: A Topical Approach (2003).

William Allan Myers holds a Ph.D. from the University of California, Riverside, and is the author of Historic Civil Engineering Landmarks of Southern California (1974), Iron Men and Copper Wires: A Centennial History of the Southern California Edison Company (1983), Nuclear Pioneer: The Story of San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station's Unit One (1993), Ranchos to Residences: The Story of Sunny Slope Water Company (1994), and numerous articles and reviews.

Jeffrey Nichols is Assistant Professor of History at Westminster College in Salt Lake City, Utah, and a former officer in the U.S. Navy. His research interests include the social and environmental history of Utah and the rest of the American West.

Michelle L. Oropeza, a graduate of California State University, Fullerton, is a student at Whittier Law School.

Shannon Orr holds a B.A. from Humboldt State University (1997) and continues her graduate work while working at the Crown Plaza Irvine Hotel.

Heidi J. Osselaer teaches part time at Arizona State University and the Maricopa County Community College District. She received her Ph.D. in History from ASU in 2001.

Alonso Quezada received his B.A. in History at California State University, Fullerton, and is an M.A. candidate at CSUF.

Jamie Rasmussen was a cadet at the U.S. Air Force Academy.

Glenda L. Riley is Alexander M. Bracken Professor of History at Ball State University and the author of Inventing the American Woman (1987, 1995, 2001), The Life and Legacy of Annie Oakley (1994), A Place To Grow: Women in the American West (1992), and five other books.

Judy Ruttenberg is a librarian at the University of California, Irvine, libraries. Her M.A. in American History is from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and her M.L.S. is from the University of Maryland, College Park.

Dale H. Sawyers teaches high school government, economics, and U.S. history, and is pursuing a law degree at Western State University School of Law. He served 8 years on active duty in the U.S. Navy, completed his B.A. in History at the University of California, Riverside, and an M.A. in History from California State University, Fullerton.

Marcus J. Schwoerer is an independent scholar living in Southern California. He has published three articles in the Welebaethan: Journal of History and continues work on the American Civil War.

Charles Joseph Sedey is currently finalizing his master's degree in Military History at California State University, Fullerton. He has taught political science and U.S. history at Don Lugo High School for the past 8 years.

Jayne Sinegal is a librarian at Irvine Valley College and a graduate student in History at California State University, Fullerton. She received her A.B. in History in 1975 from the University of California, Berkeley, her M.L.S. in Library Science in 1976, and an M.P.A. in 1978 from Golden Gate University. Her interests include Africa, slavery, women, and World War II.

Christopher Small is an avid reader and collector of Louis L'Amour, married, and a full-time graduate student. His interests are primarily 19th- and 20th-century American history, including the American West and World War II.

Sherry L. Smith is Professor of History at Southern Methodist University. Her research interests include American cultural, Native American, and western history. She is the author of several books, including [Page xxii]Reimagining Indians: Native Americans Through Anglo-Eyes, 1880–1940 (2002).

John Joseph Stanley is a Los Angeles County Deputy Sheriff who has written extensively on the history of Los Angeles County jails. His recent publications on this subject appeared in Law in the Western United States (2001) and California History: A Topical Approach (2003).

Michelle A. Stretch is an independent researcher living in Yorba Linda, California.

Carolyn Stull joined the U.S. Navy to see the world and saw Norfolk, Virginia, from 1991 to 1995. She is working toward a teaching certificate to teach social sciences to junior high school students.

Trangdai Tranguyen is the Director of the Vietnamese American Project, Center for Oral & Public History, at California State University, Fullerton.

Philip R. VanderMeer is Associate Professor of History at Arizona State University. His areas of expertise include political, legal, and western history. His recent publications include Phoenix Rising: The Making of a Desert Metropolis (2002) and “The Historical Patterns of Arizona Leadership” in Building Leadership in Arizona, Arizona Town Hall 80 (Spring 2002).

Debra A. Viles is a Ph.D. candidate at Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan. Her dissertation examines the constructions of citizenship in the American antebellum state constitutions and the meaning of this hierarchy of rights and liberties for foreigners, women, and African Americans.

Kelly A. Woestman is Associate Professor of History at Pittsburg (Kansas) State University. She has authored history, a CD-ROM published by Houghton Mifflin, along with several other instructor and student ancillaries. She is a coeditor of H-Teach and serves on the Kansas Territorial Sesquicentennial Advisory Committee.

Michael G. Woods is a graduate student at California State University, Fullerton. He edits the Welebaethan: Journal of History, has taught history in private education for the last 11 years, and is currently a California Historical Society Whitsett Student Fellow.