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c o n t r i b u t o r s charles s. aiken is professor of geography and a member of the American Studies faculty at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. He is past president of the Southeastern Division, Association of American Geographers. Aiken’s specialities are rural geography and geography of the American South. He is the author of numerous articles about the South and of The Cotton Plantation South since the Civil War ( Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998), which received the 1999 J. B. Jackson Prize of the Association of American Geographers. daniel d. arreola is professor of geography and an affiliated faculty in the Center for Latin American Studies at Arizona State University. He specializes in the study of cultural landscapes in the Mexican American borderlands. His book co-authored with James R. Curtis, The Mexican Border Cities: Landscape Anatomy and Place Personality (University of Arizona Press, 1993), won a Southwest Book Award. In 1997–98 he served as president of the Association of Pacific Coast Geographers. lowell c. “ben” bennion is professor emeritus of geography at Humboldt State University. Thanks to Donald Meinig and Leonard Arrington, he became involved in Mormon studies. He is the author of numerous articles on the geographic dynamics of Mormondom and co-author (with Gary B. Peterson) of Sanpete Scenes: A Guide to Utah’s Heart (Basin/Plateau Press, 1987), which won the J. B. Jackson Prize of the Association of American Geographers in 1989, and (with Jerry Rohde) of Traveling the Trinity Highway (MountainHome Books, 2000). martyn j. bowden is professor of geography in the Graduate School of Geography , Clark University. He specializes in cultural, historical, humanistic, and urban geography and has many publications on cognition of the Great Plains and the American West, inner-city development (notably in San Francisco), and geographical change in New England. He founded the Eastern Historical Geography Association in 1969 and he was the founding editor of Historical Geography in 1971. michael p. conzen is professor of geography at the University of Chicago. His interests include American historical and urban geography, landscape history, and the history of American commercial mapping. He has written extensively on America’s 307 evolving urban system, urban morphology, illustrated county atlases, and the Illinois & Michigan Canal region. His publications include The Making of the American Landscape (Unwin Hyman, 1990) and A Scholar’s Guide to Geographical Writing on the American and Canadian Past (University of Chicago Press, 1993). The Austrian Academy of Sciences in Vienna recently elected him a corresponding member. lawrence e. estaville is professor of geography and chairman of the Department of Geography at Southwest Texas State University. His primary research focus is the geographical experience of the Louisiana French, especially the Cajuns. His Confederate Neckties: Louisiana Railroads in the Civil War (McGinty Publications, Louisiana Tech University, 1989) won the Historic New Orleans Collection’s L. Kemper Williams Prize. susan w. hardwick is associate professor of geography at the University of Oregon . Her research interests concern ethnic migration and settlement in western North America and geographic education. The author of numerous journal articles and scholarly books on the Russian immigrant experience, Susan is best known for her Russian Refuge: Religion, Migration, and Settlement on the Pacific Rim of North America (University of Chicago Press, 1993) and Geography for Educators: Standards, Themes and Concepts (Prentice-Hall, 1996). stephen c. jett is professor emeritus of geography and former chairman of the late Department of Geography, University of California, Davis. His research specialties are American Indians of the American Southwest, especially the Navajo, and possible pre-Columbian transoceanic contacts between the hemispheres. He is the author of the award-winning books Navajo Wildlands (Sierra Club, 1967, with photographs by Philip Hyde) and (with Virginia E. Spencer) Navajo Architecture: Forms, History, Distributions (University of Arizona Press, 1981). He edits the new journal Pre-Columbiana: A Journal of Long-Distance Contacts. terry g. jordan-bychkov holds the Walter Prescott Webb Chair in Geography at the University of Texas at Austin. Major scholarly publications include The Mountain West: Interpreting the Folk Landscape ( Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997), North American Cattle Ranching Frontiers (University of New Mexico Press, 1993), The American Backwoods Frontier ( Johns Hopkins University Press, 1989), and American Log Buildings (University of North Carolina Press, 1984). He served as president of the Association of American Geographers in 1987–88. Honors include membership in the Texas Institute of Letters, election as a Fellow of the Texas State Historical...