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Edward Leo Lyman is a distinguished scholar of western transportation and community history, specializing in Mormon politics and migrations. He is the author of several books and more than twenty journal articles. He taught at the Victor Valley College where he is Emeritus Professor of History and was an adjunct professor at other California Universities. He currently lives in Utah.

Early life
Edward Leo Lyman was born in Delta, Utah in 1942. He attended the College of Southern Utah (CSU) and in May of 1966 received a Bachelor's Degree in History from Brigham Young University (BYU). He received a Master of Science Degree in History from the University of Utah in June of 1967. In 1969, he moved to Riverside CA to teach at North High School. While there, he pursued a a Ph.D. from the University of California, Riverside which he received in 1981.

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Academic Career
Lyman taught at Victor Valley College where he is Emeritus Professor of History. He was also a visiting professor at California State University at San Bernardino and California Polytechnic University.

Published works

 * "The Mormon Quest for Utah Statehood" Ph.D. dissertation, University of California at Riverside, 1981.




 * Dr. Lyman is rewriting this book, including the addition of four new chapters taking the Utah struggles for statehood back to 1849, where the first version started in 1887.






 * {{cite book|title=A History of Millard County (Utah Centennial Series}|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=q-HNAAAACAAJ|publisher=Utah Historical Society|year=1999 |isbn=0913738387}} Published with Linda Newell.



Book written with Larry Reese as photographer. Privately printed in Victorville in 2001. ISBN: 0970952503
 * "The Arduous Road: Salt Lake to Los Angeles, the Most Difficult Wagon road in American History"



Utah Historical Quarterly (UHQ),  Volume 75, Number 1 (Winter 2007) Pages 22-43
 * "Caught in Between: Jacob Hamblin and the Southern Paiutes During the Black Hawk-Navajo Wars of the Late 1860's"

Book published in 2009 by University of Utah Press ISBN-10: 0874809401, ISBN-13: 978-0874809404
 * "Amasa Mason Lyman: Mormon Apostle and Apostate, a Study in Dedication"

27th Annual Juanita Brooks Lecture.
 * "Southern Paiute Relations With Their Early Dixie Mormon Neighbors"

Awards
2011 - Mormon History Association Best Documentary Editing/Bibliography