William K. Wyckoff is a cultural and historical geographer of the American West and emeritus professor of earth sciences at Montana State University. He is a coeditor of The Mountainous West and the author of six books on the American landscape, including Mac McCloud’s Five Points, Riding Shotgun with Norman Wallace, How to Read the American West, On the Road Again, Creating Colorado, and The Developer’s Frontier. In 2016, he received the Aubrey Haines Award from the National Park Service and in 2023 was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Honor of the American Association of Geographers.
