Contributors

JOHN GRIMA came to Utah in 1986 as a hospital planner with Intermountain Healthcare. He spent the bulk of his career at McKay-Dee Hospital in Ogden working on services planning, facilities development, and business strategy. He is a board member at Midtown Community Health Center and has worked as a consultant and volunteer with other Utah health centers and the Utah Primary Care Association. Grima has led seminar courses on health policy and economics with Weber State University MHA students and with the physician residents at McKay-Dee’s Porter Family Practice Residency in Ogden. He is currently retired and working as a volunteer with Midtown.

AMY C. HOWARD received a bachelor’s degree in anthropology from Brigham Young University and master’s degree in American studies and folklore from Utah State University. She has worked on folklife documentation projects in Utah, Oregon, and Idaho, most recently documenting traditional Mexican music in Southern Idaho for the Idaho Commission on the Arts and folklife in the Willamette Valley for the Oregon Folklife Network. She worked at Idaho State University as an instructor from 2014 to 2018, teaching courses in folklore, English composition, and Spanish. She and her family recently relocated to Georgia, where she hopes to continue contributing to the study and documentation of folklore and folklife.

BRENT M. ROGERS , PhD, is the associate managing historian for the Joseph Smith Papers Project and an instructor of history at Brigham Young University, Salt Lake Center. He is the author of Unpopular Sovereignty: Mormons and the Federal Management of Early Utah Territory (University of Nebraska Press, 2017). He is currently writing a monograph on Buffalo Bill and the Mormons.

JOHN SILLITO is emeritus professor at Weber State University and a member of the board of editors of the Utah Historical Quarterly. Sillito is the editor of History’s Apprentice: The Diaries of B. H. Roberts, 1880–98 (Signature Books, 2004) and is completing a biography of Roberts. His book, coauthored with John S. McCormick, a History of Utah Radicalism: Startling, Socialistic and Decidedly Revolutionary (Utah State University Press, 2011) received the Francis Armstrong Madsen Award for the Best Book in Utah History in 2011 from the Utah State Historical Society.