Having earned her doctorate in American History at Tulane University, Bobbie Malone has directed the Office of School Services at the State Historical Society since 1995. She has written or co-written the other New Badger History Series titles, Digging and Discovery: Wisconsin Archaeology and Learning from the Land: Wisconsin Land Use, and now feels as much like a Wisconsinite as she does a Texan.
Anika Fajardo is a graduate of UW–Madison. She taught elementary school for three years before beginning graduate school at San Jose State University in Library and Information Science. She lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.