Tom Rea is the author of Bone Wars: The Excavation and Celebrity of Andrew Carnegie’s Dinosaur (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2001), winner of the Western Writers of America Spur Award for contemporary nonfiction, Devil’s Gate: Owning the Land, Owning the Story (University of Oklahoma Press, 2006), The Hole in the Wall Ranch: A History (Pronghorn Press, 2010) and two chapbooks of poetry, Man In a Rowboat (Copper Canyon, 1977) and Smith, (Dooryard Press, 1985.) With his wife Barbara he founded Dooryard Press in 1979, in Story, Wyoming, and for eight years they published beautifully letterpress-printed books by such poets as Alberto Rios, Sam Hazo, Edward Harkness, Richard Hugo, and many others. Later he worked for a dozen years as a reporter and editor on the Casper Star-Tribune, Wyoming’s largest newspaper, and since 2010 has edited WyoHistory.org, a state-history website published by the Wyoming State Historical Society. He lives with his family in Casper.