Co-editor Dennis Baird is a professor emeritus at the University of Idaho, and is the author or editor of eight books.

Diane Mallickan is Nez Perce and Shoshone Paiute. Following studies at the University of Idaho, she became a park ranger and has served for more than two decades. She wrote a research paper on Starr Maxwell which was used in the University of Idaho Library reprint of Memorial of the Nez Perce Indians Residing in the State of Idaho to the Congress of the United States as well as Snake River Basin Adjudication testimonies.

William R. Swagerty is the director of the John Muir Center at University of the Pacific and a contributor to the Smithsonian's Handbook of North American Indians.