Interpretive historian at the Montana Historical Society from 1992 to 2019, Ellen Baumler is a longtime member of the Humanities Montana Speakers Bureau, a 2011 recipient of the Governor's Award for the Humanities and an award-winning author. As author of five books on Montana history, contributor to Montana: The Magazine of Western History and Montana magazine and editor of Montana's historical highway markers, Jon Axline has been the historian at the Montana Department of Transportation since 1990.