Michael A. Amundson

Michael A. Amundson is a professor of history at Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff where he teaches courses on the History of the American West and Public History. He grew up in Loveland, Colorado, and did his undergraduate work and Master's at the University of Wyoming, where he was a member of the Cowboy Basketball team. He completed his PhD in History at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. He has written books about the nuclear West, rephotography in Wyoming, and about cowboy songs played on Edison cylinders before radio. That book, Talking Machine West, received the 2018 Ray & Pat Browne Award for Best Reference/Primary Source Work in Popular Culture and American Culture from the Popular Culture Association and also the Certificate of Merit from the 2018 Association for Recorded Sound Collections Awards for Excellence in Historical Recorded Sound Research. HIs newest book is about a pen and ink artist who made over 200 sketches of towns, mines, ranches, businesses, and animals in Colorado, Wyoming, Montana, Idaho, and Washington State between 1891 and his 1919.