Last month, a reference work that Jay Buckley and I published our coauthored Historical Dictionary of the American Frontier with Rowman & Littlefield. It is a part of their ongoing reference dictionary series. I wouldn't recommend it for leisurely reading (it is a reference work) but would encourage everyone to put in a request at their university and public libraries that they acquire a copy for their reference collection. I had promised a couple people that I would explain the back-story behind the book, because their is a back-story. In Fall 2003, my last semester as an undergraduate at BYU, a new young professor (and my unofficial adviser), Jay Buckley, invited me to work for him as a Continue readingMy New Book: A Historical Dictionary of the American Frontier