Margot Ford McMillen is an instructor at Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri. She is the author or coauthor of several books, including Paris, Tightwad, and Peculiar: Missouri Place Names (University of Missouri Press). Heather Roberson is a student at the University of California-Berkeley and is coauthor, with Margot Ford McMillen, of Called to Courage: Four Women in Missouri History (University of Missouri Press).