Contributors

W. RAYMOND PALMER is a research affiliate at the Max and Tessie Zelikovitz Centre for Jewish Studies at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada. He also operates a small historical research business. At present, Dr. Palmer is actively engaged in a book project on the activities of the London office of the World Jewish Congress during the Holocaust.

ROD DECKER’S book, Utah Politics: The Elephant in the Room, was published in July 2019 by Signature Books. He studied at the University of Utah, University of Chicago, and Harvard, was a soldier in Vietnam and a Utah political reporter, married the late Judge Christine Decker, and has three children and six grandchildren.

KENNETH L. ALFORD is an Honorary Life Member of the Utah State Historical Society, a professor of Church History and Doctrine at Brigham Young University, the current Ephraim Hatch Teaching and Learning Faculty Fellow, and a retired colonel in the US Army. Prior to BYU, he was a professor of computer science at the US Military Academy at West Point, New York, and a department chair and professor of strategic leadership and organizational behavior at the National Defense University in Washington, DC. He resides in Springville, Utah. WILLIAM P. MACKINNON is a Fellow and Honorary Life Member of the Utah State Historical Society. Since 1963 his articles, essays, and book reviews have appeared in eighteen issues of Utah Historical Quarterly. He has been presiding officer of the Mormon History Association, the Santa Barbara Corral of the Westerners, Yale Library Associates, and Children’s Hospital of Michigan. He is an alumnus or veteran of Yale College, Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration, General Motors Corporation, and the US Air Force. He resides in Montecito, California.

KAYLA REID graduated from Weber State University in 2019 with a Bachelor of Science in Anthropology. During her studies, she chose to focus on Zooarchaeology, which is where the Camp Floyd Faunal collection found her. Reid is currently finishing a master’s degree in Zooarchaeology at the University of Exeter, where her thesis focuses on the Camp Floyd collection. As of June 2021, Reid is completing an analysis of the remainder of the collection and updating her ideas about what it means. Her continued work on the collection has been generously funded by a grant from the Charles Redd Center for Western Studies. The Utah Division of State History and the Fort Douglas Military Museum have also supported her research.