The authors gratefully acknowledge the help of many people who assisted during their 20-year adventure to research and produce Story of the American West, including Max and Sport Baca, Roman Candelaria, Martha McNary Chilcote, Robert A. Clark, Barb Davis, Bruce Donaldson, Vicki Duraine, Sheryl Eaton, Myna Frestedt, the family of William and James Madison Flake, the Rev. Arthur Guenther, Atella Haws, Tom Henderson, Shirley Jones, Marty LaMar, Marion Elizabeth Menhennet, William Parker, the Penrod Family, the Peterson Family, Edgar Perry, Mary Riley, Bonnie Rogers, Tim Snider, Jacqueline Woolford Solomon, Clair Thomas, Eva Watt, Mary and Melvin Wendrick and Guy Wilhelm.

In addition, the staff members of these museums: Casa Malapais, Fort Apache, American Museum of Natural History, Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian Institution, Heard Museum, Little House Museum at South Fork, Butterfly Lodge, Sharlot Hall Museum in Prescott, the White Mountain Historical Society Park in Springerville, the Southwest Museum in Los Angeles and the tribal museums at Zuni and Hopi. Also, the community museums in Holbrook, St. Johns, Show Low, Snowflake, Pinetop-Lakeside, Taylor and Winslow.

The authors also acknowledge the assistance of staff members at these libraries, New York Public Library, Library of Congress, National Archives, University of Southern California, University of California at Los Angeles, Long Beach State, University of Arizona, Arizona State University, Arizona Historical Society, Northland Pioneer College, the Arizona State Library and the municipal libraries in Phoenix, Tucson, Pinetop-Lakeside, Show Low, Newark, Bayonne, N.J., Jersey City and Los Angeles. Also, the staff members at county courthouses in Socorro, N.M, Prescott, St. Johns and Holbrook. In addition, the Arizona Game and Fish Department, National Forest Service and Petrified Forest National Park.