Jay H. Buckley, associate professor of history at Brigham Young University, is the author of the award-winning book, William Clark: Indian Diplomat and co-author of By His Own Hand?: The Mysterious Death of Meriwether Lewis and Zebulon Pike, Thomas Jefferson, and the Opening of the American West. Buckley recently served as President of the Lewis and Clark Trail Heritage Foundation. Brenden Rensink (PhD, University of Nebraska), assistant director of the Charles Redd Center for Western Studies and assistant professor of history at Brigham Young University, has held faculty positions at the Joseph Smith Papers; University of Nebraska, Lincoln; Nebraska Wesleyan University; the University of Nebraska, Kearney; and Weber State University. He is the author of the forthcoming Native but Foreign: Transnational Cree, Chippewa and Yaqui Refugees and Immigrants in the U.S-Canadian and U.S.-Mexican Borderlands, 1880-present.

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