Contributors

CLYDE L. DENIS is Emeritus Professor of Biochemistry and Genetics at the University of New Hampshire. His federally funded research was on gene regulation in relation to cancer. An inveterate backpacker, he and his family have been exploring southern Utah and northern Arizona since 1971. His appreciation of the region was enhanced by a 1996 sabbatical at the University of Utah. Recently, he has been publishing research on the history of the Canyonlands area.

J. MICHAEL HUNTER is the author of mystery and suspense novels, as well as nonfiction works on urban legends, popular culture, Utah, and the Latter-day Saints. He works as the Associate University Librarian for Research & Learning at Brigham Young University and holds BA, MA, MLIS, and MPA degrees from Brigham Young University and California State University, Dominguez Hills. He is a backyard beekeeper with an interest in Utah’s wild and domesticated bees.

SABRINA SANDERS is the Artifacts Collection Manager for the Utah Division of State History, where she also sits on the acquisition committee. She is an active member of the Utah Museums Association, taking part in programming the annual conference. An initial degree in art history from Wayne State University was followed with an MA from Johns Hopkins University in museum studies, she believes authentic objects bring history alive.

JAMES R. SWENSEN is an associate professor of art history and the history of photography at Brigham Young University. He is the author of Picturing Migrants: The Grapes of Wrath and New Deal Documentary Photography and In a Rugged Land: Ansel Adams and Dorothea Lange’s Three Mormon Towns Collaboration, winner of the best book award from the Utah State Historical Society. He is also the recipient of the 2016–2019 Butler Young Scholar from the Charles Redd Center for Western American Studies.

GARY TOPPING is a retired historian and archivist living in Salt Lake City. He is an Honorary Lifetime Member and Fellow of the Utah State Historical Society. His writings include Glen Canyon and the San Juan Country and Utah Historians and the Reconstruction of Western History.