Terrence Cole is a history professor at the University of Alaska Fairbanks and the former editor of the AlaskaJournal. He earned a Ph.D. in American history at the University of Washington in 1983. He is the author of numerous works on Alaskan history, including Nome: City of the Golden Beaches (Alaska Geographic Society, 1984), and has written for American Heritage, Alaska Magazine, Pacific Northwest Quarterly, Journal of the West, and other publications.