WILLIAM D. ROWLEY is Professor of History at the University of Nevada in Reno. He is a student of Nevada history and western resource and environmental history. A former Executive Secretary of the Western History Association, he presently serves on the Board of the Forest History Society. He is author of M. L. Wilson and the Campaign for the Domestic Allotment, U.S. Forest Service Grazing and Rangelands: A History, and Reno: Hub of the Washoe Country.