Commentators and Consultants

Dayton Duncan
Author of Out West: American Journey Along the Lewis and Clark Trail and Miles from Nowhere: Tales from America's Contemporary Frontier, Duncan is also co-scriptwriter of THE WEST and currently at work with Ken Burns on a documentary portrait of Lewis and Clark. Write to him at Florentine Films, P.O. Box 613, Walpole, New Hampshire 03608.

J. S. Holliday
Author of The World Rushed In: The California Gold Rush Experience, which is based on the letters and journals of the Forty-niner William Swain. Holliday is a graduate of Yale University and of the University of California at Berkeley who has devoted more than thirty years to his enthusiastic interest in California's past and present.

Julie Roy Jeffrey
Author of Frontier Women: The Trans-mississippi West, 1840-1880 and Converting the West: A Biography of Narcissa Whitman. Jeffrey is Elizabeth Connelly Todd Professor of History at Goucher College.

Patricia Nelson Limerick
Author of Legacy of Conquest: The Unbroken Past of the American West. Limerick is professor of history at the University of Colorado at Boulder, where her address is Campus Box 234 Hellams, Boulder, Colorado 80309-0234.

T. H. Watkins
Author of many books and articles about the human and natural history of the West, and editor of Wilderness magazine, 900 17th Street, SW, Washington, DC 20006-2596. Watkins's book Righteous Pilgrim: The Life and Times of Harold L. Ickes 1874-1952 won the Los Angeles Times book prize in 1991.

Richard White
Author of It's Your Misfortune and None of My Own: A New History of the American West and The Middle Ground: Indians, Empires, and Republics in the Great Lakes Region, 1650-1815. White is McClelland Professor of History at the University of Washington, where his address is Department of History DP-20, Seattle, Washington 98195.

Stephen Ambrose
Historian

Rudolpho Anaya
Writer

Jo Allyn Archambault
Anthropologist

Mary Armstrong
Southern Cheyenne

Charlotte Black Elk
Lakota

Adrian Bustamante
Historian

Bertha Calloway
Curator

Ben Nighthorse Campbell
U.S. Senator from Colorado

Jack Chen
Historian

Mildred Cleghorn
Fort Still Apache

Joe Medicine Crow
Crow

Michael Dorris
Writer

David Emmons
Historian

Fred Gowans
Historian

Bill Gwaltney
Historian

Alvin Josephy
Historian

Maxine Hong Kingston
Writer

Mylie Lawyer
Nez Perce

David Love
Geologist

Henrietta Mann
Southern Cheyenne

Alfonso Ortiz
Anthropologist

Allen Pinkham
Nez Perce

Marc Reisner
Writer

Ann Richards
Former Governor of Texas

Martin Ridge
Historian

Ricardo Romo
Historian

Richard Santos
Historian

Ronald Takaki
Historian

Stewart Udall
Former U. S. Secretary of the Interior

Robert M. Utley
Historian

Roger Welsch
Folklorist

Albert White Hat
Lakota

Rick Williams
Lakota

Terry Tempest Williams
Writer

Ralph Yarborough
Former U. S. Senator from Texas