Susan Flader Author

Susan Flader is Professor Emerita of U.S. Western, environmental, and Missouri history at the University of Missouri—Columbia.

John A. Karel is president of the L-A-D Foundation and former Director of State Parks and of Tower Grove Park in St. Louis.

B. H. Rucker devoted his career to state parks as chief of cultural resources and historic preservation.

Oliver Schuchard is a landscape photographer and professor emeritus of artat the University of Missouri— Columbia.

Two co-authors of the first edition are deceased: R. Robert Pryor (1945-1999) was Executive Director of the Missouri Coalition for the Environment, and Charles Callison (1913-1993) was Executive Vice President of the National Audubon Society.