JAMES C. MALIN is professor of history at the University of Kansas, Lawrence. He is also president of the Kansas State Historical Society and associate editor of The Kansas Historical Quarterly.

     ROBERT S. FLETCHER is associate professor in the Department of History at Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio.

     MARTHA B. CALDWELL is a member of the staff of the Kansas State Historical Society.

     PAUL H. GIDDENS, professor of history and political science at Allegheny College, Meadville, Pa., is author of The Birth of the Oil Industry (New York, The Macmillan Company, 1938).

     DOMENICO GAGLIARDO is professor of economics at the University of Kansas, Lawrence.