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I'm Jeffrey King Malcomson of
Helena, MT. My day-job is being a photograph
archivist at the
Montana Historical Society Research Center, which the state has paid me to do since 2005. All the rest of the time I pretend to be an
historian. It's going pretty well so far, except I haven't written any books or become famous, for which I fully blame my kids. I consider myself a
public historian, and I figure that WP is a very public entity, so I'd like to try my wares here for a while and see what happens. Though academic credentials don't mean much on WP, they mean something to me, so here goes: BA in History from
Covenant College in beautiful
Lookout Mountain, GA, in 1996; MA in History from
Colorado State University in 1998. I have a raging interest in the
history of the American West and have for 25 years now. I have worked as an archivist and studied state history in
Colorado,
Arizona, and
Montana now for a total of 20 years.
I focus my WP time on articles related to Montana history. I'm also interested in articles related to the history of the American West, archives and archival science,
history of the national parks, and my one, true weakness,
Colorado Rockies baseball.
I have helped organize WP edit-a-thons at the Montana Historical Society since 2015 (see
Wikipedia:GLAM/Montana History).