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I was surprised and delighted to see a mention of one of my projects in the latest issue of the University of Montana’s alumni magazine. (I graduated from UM in 2001.) An Archaeology of Desperation: Exploring the Donner Party’s Alder Creek Camp includes writing from Will Bagley, who is one of my favorite western authors and a frequent collaborator, and Kristin Johnson, who wrote a couple of fantastic articles on the Donner Party when I was the editor of Overland Journal. Our role was limited to the typesetting, but it was a fairly complex job, with lots of tables and illustrations. The cover image is an old New Yorker image—a neat illustration of a microscope trained on a snow-covered trail.