Jennifer Bottomly-O'looney is senior curator of the Montana Historical Society. A third-generation Montanan, she spent much of her youth at the family's cabin on Lake McDonald in Glacier National Park, where her grandmother reminisced about Charlie Russell's visits from his nearby Bull Head Lodge. Bottomly-O'looney received her BA from Montana State University and her MA from the Royal College of Art in London. She came to Helena after graduate school as an artist-in-residence at the Archie Bray Foundation, but was lured by a love of history to the Montana Historical Society. She has contributed articles to Montana The Magazine of Western History and has curated a number of major exhibits, including that of her favorite western artist-Charles M. Russell.

Kirby Lambert is a native of Texas and a graduate of Texas Tech University, where he received degrees in history, English, and museum studies. He has been affiliated with the Montana Historical Society in various capacities for nearly three decades. Before assuming his present position as the Director of the Outreach and Interpretation Program in 2007, he spent nineteen years curating the Society's Russell collection. His publications on Rusell include A Charlie Russell Journal (Montana Historical Society Press, 1997) and essays in Russell's West, Montana The Magazine of Western History, and The Masterworks of Charles M. Russell: A retrospective of Paintings and Sculptures (University of Oklahoma Press, 2009). He has also researched and written on numerous other Montana history topics.