Contributors

PAUL E. COHEN is the author of Mapping the West (Rizzoli, 2002) and coauthor of Revolution: Mapping the Road to American Independence (Norton, 2015). Manhattan in Maps (Rizzoli, 1997; Dover, 2014), which he coauthored, won the New York City “Book of the Year” award in 1997. His articles have appeared in the New England Quarterly, The Magazine Antiques, and elsewhere. He is a dealer in rare books and antique maps and is based in New York City.

RICHARD V. FRANCAVIGLIA, a historical geographer, has had a life-long interest in maps. His first job after graduating from high school was at Rand McNally & Co. (San Francisco, 1961), and he has studied and created maps throughout his varied forty-five-year career. He retired as Director of the Center for Greater Southwestern Studies and the History of Cartography at University of Texas at Arlington in 2008, but remains an active researcher and lecturer.

RONALD E. GRIM retired in May 2018 as Curator of Maps for the Norman B. Leventhal Map and Education Center at the Boston Public Library, a position he assumed in 2005 after working thirty-three years for the federal government with the cartographic collections at the National Archives and the Library of Congress.

RICK GRUNDER chaired the BYU Library Bibliographic Department until starting his antiquarian business in 1981, specializing in early Mormon books, manuscripts, and artifacts (Lafayette, New York). He is the author of Mormon Parallels: A Bibliographic Source (2008, 2014; Bear Hollow Books, 2018, five vols.) and recipient with Will Bagley of the Merrill Mattes Award for Excellence in Writing for their article “‘I Could Hardly Hold the Pen’: Phebe Ann Wooley Davis’s Hard Road to Utah and Back, 1864–1865,” Overland Journal 27, no. 3 (Fall 2009).

JOHN NILSSON earned a BA in history from Brigham Young University, an MA in history from the University of Utah, and did additional graduate work at the University of Washington. A native of Los Angeles, he currently serves as the Assistant Dean of the Academic Advising Center at the University of Utah.

STEVEN L. OLSEN is Senior Curator for Historic Sites at the LDS Church History Department and is a member of the Board of State History. His PhD dissertation from the University of Chicago was a cultural analysis of the origins of Latter-day Saint settlement. He lives in Heber City, Utah, with his wife, occasional children, and assorted pets.

RICHARD L. SAUNDERS is an academic librarian and former Dean of Library Services at Southern Utah University. A graduate of Utah State University, he holds graduate degrees in history from USU and the University of Memphis. He is presently at work on a biography of Utah native and historian of western America Dale L. Morgan and a study of postwar social and economic change in rural America, focusing on several counties in West Tennessee.