Contributors

MICHAEL DAVID KANE received a PhD in Parks, Recreation, and Tourism from the University of Utah and an MBA from Utah State University. He is author of the forthcoming Country Never Yet Trod: William Lewis Manly’s 1849 Voyage Down the Green River. As a university instructor, businessman, and outdoor adventurer, he feels most at home exploring and experiencing the wide-open spaces of the American West.

CODY PATTON was born and raised in Ogden, Utah. He earned a BA in history from Utah State University in 2018. While at USU, he worked with manuscript curator Clint Pumphery to curate an exhibit on the Becker Brewing Company. He is currently working toward his PhD in American history at Ohio State University. His dissertation focuses on the environmental and business history of American brewing.

RASOUL SORKHABI, PhD, is a research professor at the University of Utah’s Energy & Geoscience Institute and an adjunct professor at the Department of Geology & Geophysics. He has conducted geologic research in various parts of the world and is author of numerous articles including some on the history of geology. His website is: www.rasoulsorkhabi.com.

LISA TETRAULT is an associate professor of history at Carnegie Mellon University. She specializes in the history of gender, race, and American democracy—with an emphasis on social movements and memory. She is author of The Myth of Seneca Falls: Memory and the Women’s Suffrage Movement, 1848–1898 (2014), which won the Organization of American Historians’ Mary Jurich Nickliss book prize, and is currently at work on a genealogy of the Nineteenth Amendment, as well as a book-length project about where and how women’s suffrage fits into the political landscape after the American Civil War.

NATHAN N. WAITE is an associate editorial manager for the Church Historian’s Press in Salt Lake City. He received an MA in American Studies from the University of Utah and is coeditor of A Zion Canyon Reader (2014) and Settling the Valley, Proclaiming the Gospel: The General Epistles of the Mormon First Presidency (2017). Born and raised in St. George, he returns to southern Utah as often as possible to hike, trail run, and canyoneer.

SHERI WYSONG moved to Utah in 1979 and has lived on the banks of the Sevier River since 1984. After twenty years of watching the river, she was surprised to learn the name was supposedly derived from its severe or violent nature. Her curiosity piqued at why the Sevier would be singled out as such, particularly over other Utah rivers, she began an engrossing hobby of studying maps and other resources for the origin of enigmatic Utah place names.