J. Clark Archer is a professor of geography at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. He is the coauthor of Atlas of the Great Plains (Nebraska, 2011). Richard Edwards is a former director of the Center for Great Plains Studies and professor emeritus of economics at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. He is the coauthor of Homesteading the Plains: Toward a New History (Nebraska, 2017). Leslie M. Howard is the geographic information system/cartography manager in the School of Natural Resources at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. Fred M. Shelley is a professor of geography at the University of Oklahoma. He is the coauthor of Geography of North America. Donald A. Wilhite is a professor emeritus of applied climate science in the School of Natural Resources at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. He is the coeditor of Proceedings of an Expert Meeting on a Compendium for National Drought Policy. David J. Wishart is a professor of geography at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. He is the editor of the Encyclopedia of the Great Plains (Nebraska, 2004) and author of Great Plains Indians (Nebraska, 2016).