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385 Steven M. Avella is a professor of history at Marquette University in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He is the author of two books on Sacramento: Sacramento: Indomitable City (Arcadia, 2003) and Sacramento and the Catholic Church (University of Nevada Press, 2008). He has completed a biography of Sacramento Bee editor and publisher C. K. McClatchy. Gray Brechin, a historical geographer, is a visiting scholar in the Department of Geography at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of Imperial San Francisco: Urban Power, Earthly Ruin and a collaborator with photographer Robert Dawson on Farewell, Promised Land: Waking from the California Dream. He is founder and project scholar of California’s Living New Deal Project. His chief interests are the state of California, the environmental impact of cities upon their hinterlands, and the invisible landscape of New Deal public works. Anthony E. Carlson holds a PhD in environmental history from the University of Oklahoma. He is the author of several articles and chapters on national and transnational water policy. He currently serves as a Department of Defense historian at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. Christopher J. Castaneda is professor of history at California State University, Sacramento. He has served as director of the Oral History of the Houston Economy project and coordinator of the Sacramento State Oral History Program. He has written extensively on the history of the energy industry and energy regulatory policy and is the author of Gas Pipelines and the Emergence of America’s Regulatory State (1996, 2002), Invisible Fuel: Manufactured and Natural Gas in America, 1800–2000 (1999), and “Natural Disasters in the Making: Fossil Fuels, Humanity, and the Environment,” in the OAH Magazine of History (2011). Nathan Hallam is a PhD candidate in Public History at Arizona State University. His research focuses on urban history and local history in the U.S. West. He has worked in the field of historic preservation in Northern California and Central Arizona and currently serves as the coordinator of the North Central Information Center in Sacramento. Rand Herbert has been a researcher, writer, and project manager for more than thirty-five years. As a consulting historian, he has worked on projects for federal, CONTRIBUTORS 386 contributors state, and local agencies and private businesses, and he has provided expert witness services and testimony in trials or administrative proceedings. He earned his MAT in history from the University of California, Davis, and his BA in history from the University of California, Berkeley. Throughout his three score and seven years, three things have commandeered the lion’s share of Alfred E. Holland, Jr.’s professional attention: flowing rivers, trees, and teaching. He floats every river he can, whether placid or tumultuous. He remains grateful for the trees’ contribution to the twenty-year privilege of making fine hardwood furniture. But teaching about humankind and its past is the best job anyone ever had. Todd Holmes received his PhD in history from Yale University in 2013 and is a postdoctoral fellow with the Bill Lane Center for the American West at Stanford University. A native of Sacramento and alumnus of California State University, Sacramento, he is the author of numerous articles on California agricultural, business, and political history. He is finishing a book manuscript on the corporate West and the rise of Reaganism in American politics. Albert L. Hurtado, now retired, held the Travis Chair in Modern American History at the University of Oklahoma, where he taught courses on the American West and native American history. His books and articles on these subjects have won awards, including the Billington Prize for Indian Survival on the California Frontier (1988), the Neuerburg Award for Intimate Frontiers: Sex, Gender and Culture in Old California (1999), and the Caughey Prize for John Sutter: A Life on the North American Frontier (2006). Professor Hurtado’s most recent book is Herbert Eugene Bolton: Historian of the American Borderlands. Hurtado lives in Folsom, California. Richard J. Orsi, professor emeritus of history, California State University, East Bay, specializes in western America and California, with emphasis on social, economic, and environmental development. He is the author of Sunset Limited: The Southern Pacific Railroad and the Development of the American West (University of California Press, 2005) and coauthor of four editions of The Elusive Eden: A New History of California (McGraw-Hill, 1987–2012). He also is a former editor of California History, the quarterly journal of the California Historical Society. Kenneth N. Owens, a native of the Pacific Northwest, is professor emeritus of western history...

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