About the Author

Ann Cordy Deegan has taught at numerous universities over the last thirty years and does research, writing and publishing in areas of U.S. history, particularly nineteenth- and early twentieth-century times. Maria Carrillo Colato is associate archivist of special collections at A.K. Smiley Public Library and the Lincoln Memorial Shrine. She has worked in museums and special collections in Southern California since 2006. Nathan D. Gonzales has coauthored three books about the Redlands area and serves A.K. Smiley Public Library as archivist and head of special collections, as well as curator of the Lincoln Memorial Shrine. Don McCue has been the director of A.K. Smiley Public Library and its affiliated museum, the Lincoln Memorial Shrine, since 2013. For the prior twenty-six years, he served as the library's archivist and head of special collections, as well as curator of the Lincoln Memorial Shrine.