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THOMAS G. ALEXANDER is Lemuel Hardison Redd Jr. Professor Emeritus of Western American History at Brigham Young University and author, co-author, editor, or co-editor of twenty-seven books and monographs and more than one hundred fifty articles. He has served as an officer in many historical organizations. His prizes include the Evans Biography Award, the Western History Association Honorary Life Membership, and Fellow of the Utah State Historical Society. LEISL CARR CHILDERS is Assistant Professor of History at Colorado State University. Her research focuses on the environmental history and management of the nation’s public lands and has been featured on the Bundyville podcast, PBS Frontline, and in High Country News. Her first book, The Size of the Risk: Histories of Multiple Use in the Great Basin, won the Western Writers of America Spur Award for Contemporary Nonfiction in 2016. ELIZABETH HORA is Public Archaeologist for the Utah Division of State History and earned her Master’s degree in Archaeology from Utah State University. She operates the Utah Public Archaeology Network (UtahPAN), an organization dedicated to stewarding archaeological sites and educating the public about the past. BENJAMIN KISER is a teacher of Early American History at Wayne Carle Middle School in Westminster, Colorado. He holds an MA in History from the University of Utah and a BS in Social Studies Teaching from Utah State University. His research interests center on the conflicts surrounding public land management in the twentieth-century American West.
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ELEANOR MAHONEY is the National Park Service Mellon Humanities Postdoctoral Fellow in the History of Labor and Productivity. In 2008–2009 she served as the Assistant National Coordinator for Heritage Areas. This article was made possible through the National Park Service in part by a grant from the National Park Foundation and Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. CHRISTOPHER MERRITT is the State Historic Preservation Officer for Utah, and he holds a PhD from the University of Montana and a Master’s of Science from Michigan Technological University. Beyond his duties with the state of Utah, he teaches Historical Archaeology and Cultural Resource Management at Salt Lake Community College. MARIA E. MONTOYA is an Associate Professor of History at New York University and the Dean of Arts and Sciences at NYU Shanghai. She is the author of Translating Property: The Maxwell Land Grant and the Conflict over Land in the American West, 1840–1900, and lead author of Global Americans: A Social and Global History of the United States. Her forthcoming book is Making a Working Man’s Paradise: Progressives Managing Workers in Colorado’s Company Towns. MATTHEW A. PEARCE is Principal Historian at the Preservation and Design Studio PLLC in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. His work is primarily focused on historic preservation– related projects, including National Register of Historic Places nominations, Historic Preservation Certification tax credit application preparation/consulting, and Section 106 documentation. Prior to his current role, Pearce
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