Betsy Gaines Quammen

Betsy Gaines Quammen is a historian and writer. She received a PhD from Montana State University where she studied western history and early Mormon ideology. She is fascinated by western myths and how religious views shape relationships to land. Her work has appeared in the New York Times, New York Daily News, and the History News Network. She is the author of American Zion: Cliven Bundy, God, and Public Lands in the West and True West: Myth and Mending on the Far Side of America. Betsy lives in Montana with her husband, writer David Quammen, three giant dogs, a sturdy cat, and a lanky rescue python.