Polly Aird is an independent historian whose award-winning
articles have appeared in the Utah Historical Quarterly, the
Journal of Mormon History, and Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon
Thought. In addition, she is the author of the award-winning book,
Mormon Convert, Mormon Defector: A Scottish Immigrant in the
American West, 1848-1861. She lives in Seattle, Washington.
Jeff Nichols is Associate Professor of History at
Westminster College, Salt Lake City, and the author of
Prostitution, Polygamy, and Power: Salt Lake City, 1847-1918.
Will Bagley is an independent historian who has written
about overland emigration, frontier violence, railroads, mining,
and the Mormons. Bagley has published extensively over the years
and is the author and editor of many books, articles, and reviews
in professional journals. Bagley is the series editor of Arthur H.
Clark Company's documentary history series, KINGDOM IN THE WEST:
The Mormons and the American Frontier. Bagley has been a Wallace
Stegner Centennial Fellow at the University of Utah and the
Archibald Hanna, Jr. Fellow in American History at Yale
University's Beinecke Library. Blood of the Prophets: Brigham Young
and the Massacre at Mountain Meadows has won numerous awards
including a Spur Award from Western Writers of America, the
Bancroft History Prize from the Denver Public Library, Westerners
International Best Book, and the Western History Association
Caughey Book Prize for the most distinguished book on the history
of the American West. So Rugged and Mountainous: Blazing the Trails
to Oregon and California, 1812-1848 is the first of four volumes of
Overland West: The Story of the Oregon and California Trails
Series.
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