Lillian Schlissel is a professor emerita of English and American Studies at Brooklyn College-CUNY. She is the author of numerous books, including The "Western Women's Reader" (with Catherine Lavender) and "Black Frontiers: A History of African American Heroes in the Old West," Byrd Gibbens is a professor of English at the University of New Mexico, Valencia campus, and the author of "This Is a Strange Country: Letters of a Western Family" "1880-1906,"Elizabeth Hampsten is a professor of English at the University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, and the author of "Settlers' Children: Growing Up on