Gary Topping

Gary Topping is a historian and archivist now retired from Salt Lake Community College and the archives of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Salt Lake City. He grew up on the southern Oregon coast and moved to Utah in 1972 to pursue a PhD in history at the University of Utah. His first professional position was Curator of Manuscripts at the Utah State Historical Society. His other books include Glen Canyon and the San Juan Country , Utah Historians and the Reconstruction of Western History , and...See more

Gary Topping is a historian and archivist now retired from Salt Lake Community College and the archives of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Salt Lake City. He grew up on the southern Oregon coast and moved to Utah in 1972 to pursue a PhD in history at the University of Utah. His first professional position was Curator of Manuscripts at the Utah State Historical Society. His other books include Glen Canyon and the San Juan Country , Utah Historians and the Reconstruction of Western History , and Leonard J. Arrington: A Historian's Life . He lives in Cottonwood Heights, Utah, with his wife, Marianna Hopkins. See less