Richard W. Etulain, Professor Emeritus of History at the University of New Mexico, is the author or editor of more than 50 books. Best known among his books about the history and cultures of the American West are Conversations with Wallace Stegner (1983), Writing Western History (editor, 1991), Re-imagining the Modern American West: A Century of Fiction, History, and Art (1996), Telling Western Stories: From Buffalo Bill to Larry McMurtry (1999), Beyond the Missouri: The Story of the American West (2006), The American West: A Modern History, 1900 to the Present (with Michael P. Malone, 2d ed., 2007), and Lincoln Looks West: From the Mississippi to the Pacific (2010). A very recent book is Seeking First the Kingdom: Northwest Nazarene University, A Centennial History (2012), and in January 2013 a new book entitled Lincoln and Oregon Country Politics in the Civil War Era was published. He has been president of both the Western Literature and Western History associations. He has lectured abroad in several countries, most recently as a Fulbright Lecturer in Ukraine and at the Basque University in northern Spain. He serves as editor of the Oklahoma Western Biographies series for the University of Oklahoma Press and coeditor of the Concise Lincoln Library for the Southern Illinois University Press. His biography of Calamity Jane, The Life and Legends of Calamity Jane, appeared in September 2014 and became a History Book Selection in 2015. It was also named a Finalist for the Spur Award from the Western Writers of America. His latest book, Calamity Jane: A Reader's Guide, was published in August 2015. He is at work, as coauthor, on a study of US presidents and the American West and another book dealing with Abraham Lincoln and the West.