Tom Rea

Tom Rea lives in Casper, Wyo., where he is editor and co-founder, with the Wyoming State Historical Society, of WyoHistory.org. He worked for many years in the newspaper business. The University of Pittsburgh Press in fall 2021 published a new, 20th anniversary edition of his book Bone Wars: The Excavation and Celebrity of Andrew Carnegie’s Dinosaur, which includes a foreword by Carnegie Museum paleontologist Matt Lamanna and a new afterword by the author. Other books include Devil’s Gate: Owning the Land, Owning the Story (University of Oklahoma Press, 2006, 2012) and The Hole in the Wall Ranch: A History (Pronghorn Press, 2010). For more on Tom and what WyoHistory.org is all about, click here to see a half-hour interview on Wyoming PBS.