Lori Ann Lahlum Editor

Lori Ann Lahlum is professor of history at Minnesota State University, Mankato, where she teaches courses on the American West, environmental history, Minnesota history, western women’s and gender history, and political history in the northern grasslands. With Betty Bergland, she edited Norwegian American Women: Migration, Communities, and Identities. Her current research focuses on Norwegian immigrant women in the northern grasslands and Richard Olsen Richards, a leader of the progressive reform movement in South Dakota. Lahlum grew up on a farm in LaMoure County, North Dakota.

Molly P. Rozum is associate professor and Ronald M. Nelson Chair of Great Plains and South Dakota history at the University of South Dakota in Vermillion. She teaches courses on United States women, the Great Plains, the American West, and South Dakota. She earned a Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a B.A. from the University of Notre Dame. Her research interests center on comparative United States-Canadian northern grasslands, and her book, Grasslands Grown: Sense of Place and Regional Identity on North America’s Canadian Prairies and American Plains, 1870–1950, is forthcoming. Rozum is a native of Mitchell, South Dakota.