Richard W. Etulain, PhD, is professor emeritus of history at the University of New Mexico. He studied at Northwest Nazarene College in Idaho and received his graduate degrees from the University of Oregon. He was a Fulbright Lecturer in Ukraine and taught at the University of the Basque Country. Etulain is an author or editor of more than sixty-five books, including Illuminative Moments in Pacific Northwest Prose: 1800 to the Present, and has served as the president of both the Western History and Western Literature Associations.