Curtis M. Hinsley is Regents' Professor Emeritus of history at Northern Arizona University and co-editor (with David R. Wilcox) of the first two volumes of Frank Hamilton Cushing and the Hemenway Southwestern Archaeological Expedition, 1886-1889 and Coming of Age in Chicago.

David R. Wilcox was a senior research archaeologist and special assistant to the deputy director at the Museum of Northern Arizona. He is a co-editor (with Curtis M. Hinsley) of the first two volumes of Frank Hamilton Cushing and the Hemenway Southwestern Archaeological Expedition, 1886-1889 and Coming of Age in Chicago.

"This book is a story of love and resentment, cooperation and conflict on a critical archaeological expedition to the American Southwest of the late Victorian period"--