Contributors

DORIS DANT retired in 2012 as an associate professor of linguistics from Brigham Young University. For fifteen years, she was executive editor of BYU Studies. She coedited Nearly Everything Imaginable: The Everyday Life of Utah's Mormon Pioneers and Turning Freud Upside Down and coauthored The Book of Mormon Paintings of Minerva Teichert.

EDWARD GEARY, a native of Emery County, Utah, is professor emeritus of English and former director of the Charles Redd Center for Western Studies at Brigham Young University. His publications include Goodbye to Poplarhaven: Recollections of a Utah Boyhood, The Proper Edge of the Sky: The High Plateau Country of Utah, and A History of Emery County.

CHRISTOPHER MERRITT is deputy SHPO, Utah Division of State History. MICHAEL R. POLK is the principal archaeologist at Aspen Ridge Consultants, L.L.C. KENNETH P. CANNON is the president and owner of Cannon Heritage Consultants and research assistant professor in the Anthropology Program at Utah State University. MICHAEL SHEEHAN is the cultural resources program lead for the Bureau of Land Management (BLM)-Salt Lake Field Office. GLENN STELTER is the fuels archaeologist for the BLM-Salt Lake Field Office. RAY KELSEY is the outdoor recreation planner for the BLM-Salt Lake Field Office.

DALE L. MORGAN (1914–1971) was a respected historian of the American West. Morgan’s work on overland migration, mapping, and exploration includes The Great Salt Lake, Jedediah Smith and the Opening of the American West, and Overland in 1846. At the time this essay was published Morgan was a research specialist and editor for the Bancroft Library at the University of California, Berkeley.

RICHARD SAUNDERS is a long-time student of Utah history and presently serves as dean of the library at Southern Utah University. He has edited several of Dale Morgan’s works for publication or new editions and is at work on a biography of Morgan. He is also editor of Shoshonean Peoples and the Overland Trails.

ROBERT M. UTLEY, at the time of publication of his article, was regional historian of the Southwest Region of the National Park Service, based in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Before retiring in 1980, he had served as chief historian, director of the Office of Archeology and Historic Preservation, and assistant director of the National Park Service, and deputy director of the President’s Advisory Council on Historic Preservation. He is the author of twenty-three books on western American history.