Steven G. Baker earned his BA in anthropology from the University of Kansas and his MA in American History from the University of South Carolina. Baker was an independent locally focused Colorado scholar who has worked as an archaeologist and ethnohistorian for nearly 60 years. He worked in Canada for Parks Canada in the 1960s and gained experience in French Canadian colonial history and archaeology. He was the founder and president of Centuries Research, Inc. of Montrose, Colorado, one of the first cultural resource management firms established in the United States. His most recent significant contributions within a long bibliography extending back to 1967 are Juan Rivera's Colorado, 1765: The First Spaniards Among the Ute and Paiute Indians on the Trails to Teguayo and My Name Is Pacomio: The Life and Works of Colorado's Sheepherder and Master Artist of Nature's Canvases, both in new editions from Sunstone Press.