Acknowledgments

Heading West: Mapping the Territory was curated by Alice C. Hudson, Chief of the Map Division, of the Humanities and Social Sciences Library.

Alice C. Hudson would like to extend personal thanks to Web Wheelock, Map Division volunteer, whose words, guidance, and good humor kept me on the right track. Thanks also to Map Division staff members Stephan Saks, for research support throughout the preparation of the exhibit, and Nancy Kandoian and Tom Bourke, for their technical support and patience. Thanks also to the antiquarian mapping community across the Internet, especially the members of the Maphist mailing list, who never failed to answer my calls for assistance in navigating my uncharted pathway through the maps of the West.

For their invisible but invaluable support, without which the curator would have gone south, instead of west, thanks and praise go to Research Coordinators Jeanne Bornstein and Meg Maher and their colleagues in the Exhibitions Program Office: Susan Rabbiner, Manager; Myriam de Arteni, Exhibitions Conservator; Caryn Gedell, Associate Registrar; and Russell Drisch, Installation Coordinator.

To Marc Blaustein and Suzanne Doig of the Graphics Office and Ann Antoshak for the artistry of their graphic design, which gave vision and voice to the exhibition graphics, publications, and website, the curator offers thanks; and to Barbara Bergeron of the Publications Office, my gratitude for her way with words. To exhibition designer Stephen Saitas, a salute for his awareness of institutional and curatorial quirks, and his creativity and grace in designing "the West."

No exhibition is the product of a lone curator, or even a team. My deepest gratitude goes to the research collections of The New York Public Library, which over the past two years have taught me so much about the history of the American West.

The New York Public Library Administration:

Paul LeClerc, President

William D. Walker, Andrew W. Mellon Director of The Research Libraries

Heike Kordish, Deputy Director of The Research Libraries

Rodney Phillips, Director, Humanities and Social Sciences Library

H. George Fletcher, Brooke Russell Astor Director for Special Collections

Exhibitions Program Office:

Manager: Susan Rabbiner

Research Coordinators: Jeanne Bornstein, Meg Maher

Registrars: Caryn Gedell, Jean Mihich, Melitte Buchman, Pien Safit

Exhibitions Conservator: Myriam de Arteni

Installation Coordinator: Russell Drisch

Preparation and Installation: Megan Bongiovanni, Davidson Burnam, Patrick T. Day, Eric Doeringer, Scott Fernsler, Susan Fisher, Andrew Gaylard, Mark Jetton, James Rumley

Exhibitions Assistant: Jeanne Stehr-Jahn

Editor: Barbara Bergeron

Graphic Design: Suzanne Doig, Ann Antoshak

Art Direction: Marc Blaustein

Development: Catherine Carver Dunn, Susan Brady, Melissa Grundman

Public Relations: Herb Scher, Sabina Potaczek

Public Programming:

Humanities and Social Sciences Library: Betsy Bradley, Rachel Natelson

Volunteer Coordinator: Maura Muller

Digital Imaging: Anthony Troncale, Rona Chang, Robyn Mericle, Tim Russell

Website:

Site Coordination: Meg Maher

Site Design: Marc Blaustein

Website Production and Usability Testing: Future Phase Computer Systems

Additional Production Support: David Rosensweig, Jay Haque, Kathleen Kelly

Digital Recording of Audio: Adrian Cosentini

Exhibition Design: Stephen Saitas Designs

Installation Fabrication: Insight Group, Inc.