Anne F. Hyde is professor of history at Colorado College. She has written on race and family, mining and conservation, and tourism in the West, including Empire, Nation, and Family: A History of the North American West, 1800-1860 (2010); An American Vision: Far Western Landscape and National Culture (1991); “Mormons and Miners: Sam Brannan and Elizabeth Byers” in Peopling the American West: A Biographical History, (2004); "Round Pegs in Square Holes: Community and Environment in the Rocky Mountain West" in Many Wests: Place, Culture and Regional Identity (1997); and assorted articles in the Western Historical Quarterly and the Pacific Historical Review. She has won the W. Turrentine Jackson Award from the Western History Association and has held office in the Western History Association, the Pacific Coast Branch of the American Historical Association, and the Organization of American Historians. She is currently researching mixed race people in the early American West.