Steven Ross Evans, (Ph. D., history, Washington State University), taught history for thirty-three years at Lewis-Clark State College in Lewiston, Idaho. He continues to research and write about the Nez Perce and the Lewis and Clark expedition. His wife, Connie, is a member of the Nez Perce Tribe of Idaho.

Trevor James Bond is the codirector of the Center for Digital Scholarship and Curation and the associate dean for Digital Initiatives and Special Collections at the Washington State University Libraries. He received his master's in library and information science with a specialization in archives and preservation management and a master's in ancient history at UCLA. He completed his doctorate at WSU in the Department of History in 2017.