Idaho's Place: A New History of the Gem State

Contributors

291 Contributors Katherine G. Aiken is a professor of history at the University of Idaho, where she served as dean of the College of Letters, Arts & Social Sciences from 2006 to 2013 and is currently interim provost and executive vice president . She has written articles dealing with Idaho’s first woman member of the U.S. Congress, Gracie Pfost; environmental history; twentieth-century Idaho history; and the Coeur d’Alene mining district. Her books are Harnessing the Power of Motherhood: The National Florence Crittenton Mission, 1883–1925; Idaho’s Bunker Hill: The Rise and Fall of a Great Mining Company, 1885–1982; and, with Kevin Marsh and Laura Woodworth-Ney, Idaho: The Enduring Promise. She is the Idaho Humanities Council chair and a member of the State Department of Education Professional Standards Commission. Judith Austin retired in 2002 as historian and coordinator of publications at the Idaho State Historical Society. She received her B.A. in history at Duke University and her M.A. in the history of education at Teachers College , Columbia University. After four and a half years as an editor in New York City, she joined the staff of the society in 1967. For twenty-seven years, she was the editor of the society’s journal, Idaho Yesterdays. She is active in the Western History Association and is the secretary-treasurer of the Conference of Historical Journals. Richard W. Etulain is professor emeritus of history at the University of New Mexico. A specialist on the history and literature of the American West, he has authored or edited more than forty-five books on western and U.S. cultural topics. Among his best-known books are ConversationswithWallace Stegner on Western History and Literature (1983, rev. ed. 1996), The American West: A Twentieth-Century History, with Michael P. Malone (1989, 2nd ed. 2007), Re-imagining the Modern American West: A Century of Fiction, History, 292Contributors and Art (1996), Telling Western Stories: From Buffalo Bill to Larry McMurtry (1999), and Beyond the Missouri: The Story of the American West (2006). His writings have won several awards, and he has served as president of both the Western Literature and Western History Associations. Lincoln and Oregon Country Politics in the Civil War Era (2013) is his latest book. Rodney Frey is a professor of ethnography at the University of Idaho. Over the past thirty-five years, he has been associated with and conducted various applied collaborative projects with the Apsáalooke (Crow of Montana), the Schitsu’umsh and Nimíipuu (Coeur d’Alene and Nez Perce of Idaho), the Confederated Warm Springs Tribes of Oregon, and other area tribes. Among his primary teachers, to whom he acknowledges his indebtedness, are Tom and Susie Yellowtail and Alvin Howe (Apsáalooke), Lawrence Aripa and Cliff SiJohn (Schitsu’umsh), Josiah and D’Lisa Pinkham (Nimíipuu), and Rob and Rose Moran (Little Shell Chippewa and Warm Springs). Among the books he has published in collaboration with his teachers are Landscape Traveled by Coyote and Crane: The World of the Schitsu’umsh (Coeur d’Alene Indians) (2001) and Stories That Make the World: Oral Literature of the Indian Peoples of the Inland Northwest (1995). Jill K. Gill is a professor and graduate coordinator in the History Department at Boise State University. Her research and teaching interests bridge religious, racial, and political history in the twentieth-century United States, and she is the author of Embattled Ecumenism: The National Council of Churches, the Vietnam War, and the Trials of the Protestant Left (2011). She is currently exploring the history of black/white dynamics in Idaho as part of a book-length project. Errol D. Jones is a professor emeritus of history at Boise State University, where he taught courses in U.S. and Latin American history from 1982 to 2007.HecontinuestobeactiveinresearchandwritingthehistoryofLatinos in Idaho. His most recent publications include “The Shooting of Pedro Rodriguez ,” in Idaho Yesterdays (2005); with Kathleen R. Hodges, “A Long Struggle : Mexican Farmworkers in Idaho, 1918–1935,” with Kathleen R. Hodges, in Memory, Community, and Activism: Mexican Migration and Labor in the Contributors293 PacificNorthwest, edited by Jerry Garcia and Gilberto Garcia(2005); “Idaho,” in Latino America: A State-by-State Encyclopedia, edited by Mark OvermyerVel ázquez (2008). He was guest editor and contributor for a special issue of Idaho Landscapes, “La Cultura Mexicana” (2011). Kevin R. Marsh is a professor and the chair of the History Department at Idaho State University. He teaches courses in Idaho history, environmental history, and the twentieth...