JO TICE BLOOM of Stockton, California, is a Doctoral Graduate of the Uni-
versity of Wisconsin, Madison, and a specialist in the history of the American
territorial system in the early national period. In addition to teaching in Wisconsin
and Maryland, she held a Fulbright lectureship in 1977 to teach American and
world history at Kabul University, Afghanistan. She has published articles and
reviews in Western Historical Quarterly, Journal of the Early Republic, and
elsewhere.

ANNE M. BUTLER is an Associate Professor of History at Gallaudet College,
Washington, D.C. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Maryland,
where she studied with Walter Rundell. She is the author of Daughters of Joy,
Sisters of Misery: Prostitutes in the American West, 1865-1890 ( University of
Illinois Press, 1985) and editor of U.S. Senate Election, Expulsion, and Censure
Cases ( U.S. Senate Historical Office, 1985). She has written articles on the
range cattle industry, frontier prostitution, and Walter Prescott Webb.

H. ROGER GRANT is a Professor of History at the University of Akron. He
received his Ph.D. from the University of Missouri in 1970, where he was a
student of Lewis Atherton. Grant is the author of five books, including Self-
Help in the 1890's Depression ( Iowa State University Press, 1983) and The Corn
Belt Route: A History of the Chicago Great Western Railroad Company ( Northern
Illinois University Press, 1984). He is currently at work on a book-length history
of "The Gentle Utopians: Jacob Beilhart and the Spirit Fruit Society" and a
study of the Chicago & North Western Railway Company.

JOHN D. HAEGER is Professor of History and chair of the department at Central
Michigan University. He received his Ph.D. from Loyola University ( Chicago).
He is the author of The Investment Frontier ( SUNY Press, 1981) and has pub-

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