Edward Leo Lyman is a professor of history at Dixie State University in St. George, Utah, and formerly at California Polytechnic University and California State University San Bernardino. He is the author of The Arduous Journey: Salt Lake to Los Angeles; A History of Millard County, Utah; Political Deliverance: The Mormon Quest for Utah Statehood; and San Bernardino: The Rise and Fall of a California Community. He has had articles published in Arizona and the West, Brigham Young University Studies, California History, Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought, Idaho Yesterdays, Southern California Quarterly, and the Utah Historical Quarterly.