Lillian Schlissel

Far from Home: Families of the Westward Journey Lillian Schlissel Book Club Edition? edition

Lillian Schlissel is a professor emerita of English and American Studies at Brooklyn College?CUNY. She is the author of numerous books, including The Western Women's Reader (with Catherine Lavender) and Black Frontiers: A History of African American Heroes in the Old West. Byrd Gibbens is a professor of English at the University of New Mexico, Valencia campus, and the author of This Is a Strange Country: Letters of a Western Family 1880-1906. Elizabeth Hampsten is a professor of English at the University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, and the author of Settlers' Children: Growing Up on the Great Plains.