MICHAEL MCLANE is director of the Center for the Book at Utah Humanities. He is a graduate of the Environmental Humanities program at the University of Utah and is an editor with the literary journals saltfront: studies in human habit(at) and Sugar House Review. CHRISTOPHER W. MERRITT is the Deputy State Historic Preservation Officer at the Utah Division of State History. Beyond his duties at the State of Utah, he has spent the last decade
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JOHN “JACK” RAY is an attorney at Fabian & Clendenin in Salt Lake City and former president of the Utah Association for Justice. A duck hunting enthusiast, he is a longtime member of a Great Salt Lake duck club and former president of the Utah Waterfowl Association. RANDY WILLIAMS is Fife Folklore Archives Curator and oral history specialist at Utah State University Library’s Special Collections & Archives. She also directs USU’s community-based fieldwork projects, bringing the voices of diverse people from the Intermountain West.
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JEFF NICHOLS is a professor of history at Westminster College in Salt Lake City. He is author of Prostitution, Polygamy, and Power: Salt Lake City, 1847–1918, and coeditor of Playing with Shadows: Voices of Dissent in the Mormon West.
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ARIE LEEFLANG is an archaeologist and the Archaeology Records Manager at the Utah Division of State History. His research interests include the archaeology of the Great Salt Lake Desert, historic summit registers, and Utah geographic place names.
researching and writing about the Chinese experience in Utah and Montana. The Coming Man from Canton: Chinese Experience in Montana, 1862–1943 (University of Nebraska Press) was published in 2017.
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ANDREW H. HEDGES is a professor of Church History and Doctrine, Brigham Young University, and currently serves as the associate chair of that department. He is coeditor of volumes 2 and 3 of the Journals of the Joseph Smith Papers. His current research is the history of Mormons, wetlands, and marshes in the Salt Lake Valley.
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