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Book SynopsisDistinguished historian Richard Etulain brings together a selection of essays from his sixty-year career as a specialist on the US West. Each essay provides an invaluable overview of the rise of western literary history and historiography, revealing summaries of regional literature, and discussions of western stories yet to be told.
Trade ReviewRichard Etulain is one of the most significant interpreters of Western history, and especially its literary and cultural history, of the past half-century. To gather his essays, old and new, in one volume is a great contribution." —Michael S. Green, author of
Nevada: A History of the Silver State "An important topic masterfully executed by the leading authority in the dual fields of literary history and historiography." —David V. Holtby, author of
Lest We Forget: World War I and New MexicoTable of Contents
- Preface
- Chapter One. Transitions in Western Historiography
- Chapter Two. The American Literary West and Its Interpreters: The Rise of a New Historiography
- Chapter Three. Shifting Interpretations of Western American Cultural History
- Chapter Four. The Twentieth-Century American West: A New Historiographical Frontier
- Chapter Five. Research Opportunities in Twentieth-Century Western Cultural History
- Chapter Six. After Turner: The Western Historiography of Frederic Logan Paxson
- Chapter Seven. Earl Pomeroy: Reorienting Western History
- Chapter Eight. Inventing the Pacific Northwest: Novelists and the Region's History
- Chapter Nine. Western Stories for the Next Generation
- Chapter Ten. Beyond Conflict, Toward Complexity: New Views of the American West
- Chapter Eleven. Research Opportunities in Western History
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- Poll: The Most Influential Western Historians
- Notes
- American West Historiography: Books and Essays
