About the Author

A former archivist at the Southwest Collection at Texas Tech University, Stephen Bogener is currently professor of history at West Texas A&M University in Canyon.William Tydeman is an archivist at the Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library at Texas Tech University, where he oversees the Sowell Family Collection in Literature, Community and the Natural World. He is the co-editor of the UNM Press publication Reading Into Photography: Selected Essays, 1959-1980.Award-winning author Barry Lopez is the Visiting Distinguished Scholar at Texas Tech University. He lives in Oregon.