Larry E. Morris (MA, Brigham Young University) is a writer and editor with the Joseph Smith Papers Project. He recently published a book with Yale University Press on the ultimate fate of the members of the Lewis and Clark expedition.

John W. Welch (J.D., Duke University) is the Robert K. Thomas Professor of Law at Brigham Young University's J. Reuben Clark Law School, editor in chief of BYU Studies, and director of publications for the university's Joseph Fielding Smith Institute for LDS History. He is the founder of the Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies. He serves on the executive committee of the Biblical Law Section of the Society of Biblical Literature.