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Mary Adams is President and cofounder of ISIM Intermountain West and contributed to the Utah University, an online graduate school based in Historical Quarterly as well as other publications. Denver, Colorado. She holds degrees in History and Henry Fay Cheung is a doctoral student in history at Business. the University of , Riverside. Elwood Bakken is an independent scholar in Kevin Christy teaches history in a Christian school in Bozeman, Montana, and shipping manager for Action Orange County, California. Lighting. He has published in Montana: The Magazine of Western History and Carve. Tiffany E. Dalpe is a doctoral student in ethics and the history of philosophy at the University of Michelle Bean is a California native. In 1991 she Memphis. graduated from the University of California, Irvine, with a bachelor’s degree in Political Science and Maureen Woodard Dana teaches at Sacramento City a minor in History. Currently, she is finishing her College and holds a Ph.D. in American Literature secondary school teaching credential at California from the Claremont Graduate School. Her research State University, Fullerton. includes work on captivity narratives of the 17th and 18th centuries, female short story writers of the 1930s, Brenda Bitgood is an independent scholar and grad- and late 20th-century feminist fiction and theory. uate of California State University, Fullerton, with a B.A. in History and a B.A. in American Studies. She Clark Davis was Associate Professor of History at currently resides in Anaheim, California, with her California State University, Fullerton, author of husband and her daughter. Company Men: White Collar Life and Corporate Cultures in , 1892-1941 (2000), and coed- Renae Moore Bredin currently teaches in the itor of The Human Tradition in California (2002). Women’s Studies Program at California State Clark passed on February 4, 2003, at the age of 36. University, Fullerton. Her publications include essays on Native American women writers, Elsie Clews Susan Badger Doyle is an independent scholar in Parsons, and gender and technology. Pendleton, Oregon, and the author of Journeys to the Land of Gold: Emigrant Diaries from the Bozeman Anne M. Butler is the editor of The Western Trail, 1863-1866 (2000). Historical Quarterly and Professor of History at Utah State University, Logan. She is the author of Randal Fulkerson is Adjunct Professor of History Daughters of Joy, Sisters of Misery: Prostitutes in the and Humanities at California Baptist University-High American West, 1865-90 (1985), Gendered Justice in Desert Campus. His graduate education focused on the American West: Women Prisoners in Men’s late 19th-century to early 20th-century American and Penitentiaries (1997), Uncommon Common Women church history. (1996) with Ona Siporin, and The Frontiers and Victor W. Geraci is Associate Professor of History at Catholic Identities (1999) with Michael Engh. Central Connecticut State University, New Britain, and the author of a forthcoming book, Salud. Sharon Snow Carver is Adjunct Professor at Utah State University, Tooele, and holds a Ph.D. from Joan V. Greenwood is Professor Emerita of English Brigham Young University in American History. She and Comparative Literatures at California State has done extensive research on women’s clubs in the University, Fullerton.

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Vanessa Anne Gunther teaches history at a variety of Scott Kesilis recently graduated with honors from institutions in Southern California and holds a Ph.D. California State University, Fullerton, with bachelor’s in Native American History from the University of degrees in Political Science and History. At present, California, Riverside. She also works in the medical he is taking a sabbatical from his studies. arts field. Alexandra Kindell is a doctoral candidate at Iowa Debra L. Gold Hansen is Associate Professor at San State University. She is interested in women’s roles in Jose State University’s School of Library and rural life and agriculture, which she has explored in Information Science and has a Ph.D. in American her teaching and during her tenure as assistant editor History from the University of California, Irvine. of Agricultural History. Mary Hardy teaches history in Thailand at Renee M. Laegreid teaches at Hastings College in Assumption University. She continues to engage in Hastings, Nebraska, specializing in American western historical research projects and is currently awaiting a and cultural history. She received her Ph.D. from the publication coauthored with Dr. William Haddad in University of Nebraska in 2002. Her recent publica- the journal Israeli Affair. She also is working with tions focus on the evolution of the rodeo queen Dr. B. Carmon Hardy editing a new edition of a world phenomena, and she is currently preparing a book for civilizations primary sourcebook. publication on that subject. Angela E. Henderson is Professor of Reading at Neal Lynch is the Technical Services Manager Fullerton College and author of “Fiction as Reality: at Cemex Concrete Division in Ontario, California, ‘Lonesome Dove,’ the Law, and a Property-Holder’s a graduate student in history at California State Society,” Journal of the West (Fall 2000). University, Fullerton, a member of Toastmasters International, a volunteer docent at the Lincoln Shrine Craig Hendricks teaches at Long Beach City Museum, and a teacher of U.S. citizenship at a local College. He received both an M.A. and Ph.D. from the community center. State University of New York, Stony Brook, focusing on modern Latin American history, and has published Sandra K. Mathews-Lamb teaches at Nebraska articles and edited four essay collections. Wesleyan University, Lincoln. She finished her Ph.D. in 1998 at the University of New Mexico in History Lori S. Iacovelli is Lead Archives and Exhibits (American West and Latin America). Currently, she is Assistant at the Whittier, California, Historical completing a biography of Donna Joy McGladrey and Society Museum. a manuscript on Pueblo Indian land grants (1600 to Elizabeth Jameson holds the Imperial Oil & Lincoln 1870). McKay Chair in American Studies at the University of Mary M. McCulloch teaches in the undergraduate Calgary. Her publications include All That Glitters: Religious Studies Department at Mount St. Mary’s Class, Conflict and Community in Cripple Creek, and College, Los Angeles. Prior to receiving her graduate two coedited books, The Women’s West and Writing degree, she spent 15 years working for Allstate the Range: Race, Class and Culture in the Women’s Insurance Company as an underwriter and marketing West. manager. Patricia Jimenez holds B.A.s from the University of Becky Jo (Gesteland) McShane is Assistant California, Riverside, in History and Political Science. Professor at Weber State University, where she She is currently taking time off from graduate work in teaches classes in technical communication, literature, history. Her areas of interest include the Vietnam War, and composition. Her publications include articles on the antiwar movement, and protest music. women’s southwestern autobiographies and case stud- ies of business writing. Her current research explores Mary L. Kelley is Assistant Professor of History at the professional writing of anthropologists Gladys Lamar University. Her areas of specialization are Reichard and Fanny Bandelier. modern , women, and Texas. She is cur- rently working on a forthcoming book, Private Melissa L. Miller is currently pursuing a graduate Wealth, Public Good. degree in history from California State University, FM-Bakken.qxd 5/20/03 2:18 PM Page xxi

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Fullerton, while working as a food server at Alcatraz Jamie Rasmussen was a cadet at the U.S. Air Force Brewing Company. She received her bachelor’s Academy. degree from CSUF in 2001. Glenda L. Riley is Alexander M. Bracken Professor Linda Frances Mollno is a Lecturer in U.S. History of History at Ball State University and the author of and California History at both California State Inventing the American Woman (1987, 1995, 2001), Polytechnic University, Pomona, and California State The Life and Legacy of Annie Oakley (1994), A Place University, Los Angeles, and is a doctoral candidate in To Grow: Women in the American West (1992), and history at the Claremont Graduate University. She is five other books. writing her dissertation on the Pasadena Community Judy Ruttenberg is a librarian at the University of Playhouse. California, Irvine, libraries. Her M.A. in American Danelle Moon is Adjunct Professor in the History History is from the University of Massachusetts, Department at Central Connecticut State University, Amherst, and her M.L.S. is from the University of teaching U.S. and Women’s History, and is Archivist Maryland, College Park. in Manuscripts and Archives, Yale University Library. Dale H. Sawyers teaches high school government, She is a trained Public Historian, independent economics, and U.S. history, and is pursuing a law researcher and scholar, and most recently published degree at Western State University School of Law. chapters in Law in the (2000) He served 8 years on active duty in the U.S. Navy, and California History: A Topical Approach (2003). completed his B.A. in History at the University of William Allan Myers holds a Ph.D. from the California, Riverside, and an M.A. in History from University of California, Riverside, and is the author California State University, Fullerton. of Historic Civil Engineering Landmarks of Southern Marcus J. Schwoerer is an independent scholar California (1974), Iron Men and Copper Wires: A living in Southern California. He has published three Centennial History of the Southern California Edison articles in the Welebaethan: Journal of History and Company (1983), Nuclear Pioneer: The Story of San continues work on the American Civil War. Onofre Nuclear Generating Station’s Unit One (1993), Ranchos to Residences: The Story of Sunny Charles Joseph Sedey is currently finalizing his Slope Water Company (1994), and numerous articles master’s degree in Military History at California State and reviews. University, Fullerton. He has taught political science and U.S. history at Don Lugo High School for the past Jeffrey Nichols is Assistant Professor of History at 8 years. Westminster College in Salt Lake City, Utah, and a former officer in the U.S. Navy. His research interests Jayne Sinegal is a librarian at Irvine Valley College include the social and environmental history of Utah and a graduate student in History at California State and the rest of the American West. University, Fullerton. She received her A.B. in History in 1975 from the University of California, Michelle L. Oropeza, a graduate of California State Berkeley, her M.L.S. in Library Science in 1976, and University, Fullerton, is a student at Whittier Law an M.P.A. in 1978 from Golden Gate University. Her School. interests include Africa, slavery, women, and World Shannon Orr holds a B.A. from Humboldt State War II. University (1997) and continues her graduate work Christopher Small is an avid reader and collector of while working at the Crown Plaza Irvine Hotel. Louis L’Amour, married, and a full-time graduate Heidi J. Osselaer teaches part time at Arizona State student. His interests are primarily 19th- and 20th- University and the Maricopa County Community century American history, including the American West College District. She received her Ph.D. in History and World War II. from ASU in 2001. Sherry L. Smith is Professor of History at Southern Alonso Quezada received his B.A. in History at Methodist University. Her research interests include California State University, Fullerton, and is an M.A. American cultural, Native American, and western candidate at CSUF. history. She is the author of several books, including FM-Bakken.qxd 5/20/03 2:18 PM Page xxii

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Reimagining Indians: Native Americans Through Making of a Desert Metropolis (2002) and “The Anglo-Eyes, 1880-1940 (2002). Historical Patterns of Arizona Leadership” in Building Leadership in Arizona, Arizona Town Hall John Joseph Stanley is a Los Angeles County Deputy 80 (Spring 2002). Sheriff who has written extensively on the history of Los Angeles County jails. His recent publications on Debra A. Viles is a Ph.D. candidate at Wayne State this subject appeared in Law in the Western United University in Detroit, Michigan. Her dissertation States (2001) and California History: A Topical examines the constructions of citizenship in the Approach (2003). American antebellum state constitutions and the meaning of this hierarchy of rights and liberties for Michelle A. Stretch is an independent researcher foreigners, women, and African Americans. living in Yorba Linda, California. Kelly A. Woestman is Associate Professor of History Carolyn Stull joined the U.S. Navy to see the world at Pittsburg (Kansas) State University. She has and saw Norfolk, Virginia, from 1991 to 1995. She is authored @history, a CD-ROM published by working toward a teaching certificate to teach social Houghton Mifflin, along with several other instructor sciences to junior high school students. and student ancillaries. She is a coeditor of H-Teach Trangdai Tranguyen is the Director of the Vietnamese and serves on the Kansas Territorial Sesquicentennial American Project, Center for Oral & Public History, at Advisory Committee. California State University, Fullerton. Michael G. Woods is a graduate student at California Philip R. VanderMeer is Associate Professor of State University, Fullerton. He edits the Welebaethan: History at Arizona State University. His areas of Journal of History, has taught history in private expertise include political, legal, and western history. education for the last 11 years, and is currently a His recent publications include Phoenix Rising: The California Historical Society Whitsett Student Fellow.