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Essays on Literary History and Historiography
Distinguished historian Richard W. Etulain brings together a generous selection of essays from his sixty-year career as a specialist on the US West in...
The Life and Legends of Billy the Kid
Even before he was shot and killed in 1881, Billy the Kidโs charisma and murderous career were generating stories that belied his brief lifeโand t...
Western fans today may not recognize the name Ernest Haycox (1899โ1950), but they know his work. John Ford turned one of his stories into the iconic...
Everyone knows the name Calamity Jane. Scores of dime novels and movie and TV Westerns have portrayed this original Wild West woman as an adventuresom...
A Reader's Guide
A central character in legends and histories of the Old West, Billy the Kid rivals such western icons as Jesse James and General George Armstrong Cust...
From Buffalo Bill to Larry McMurtry
What has the western of literature and film contributed to American culture? Richard Etulain, the leading cultural historian of the West, answers that...
This exhaustive bibliographical reference will be the first stop for anyone looking for Calamity Jane in print, film, or photographโand wanting to k...
A Modern History, 1900 to the Present
Chronicles the history of the American West during the twentieth century, tracing economical, political, social, and cultural developments in the regi...
The Story of the American West
This new historical overview tells the dramatic story of the American West from its prehistory to the present. A narrative history, it covers the regi...
A Century of Fiction, History, and Art
Describes changes in how the West has been seen, from a male-dominated frontier, to a region with a powerful sense of place, to a modern center of bot...
A Twentieth-century History
Chronicles the history of the American West in the twentieth century, tracing economical, political, social, and cultural developments in the region f...
The Contested Terrain of a Region and Its Borders, 1898-1940
To many Americans in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the West was simultaneously the greatest symbol of American opportunity, the greatest sto...
Oregon Statesman
In a career in public office spanning five decades, Mark Odom Hatfield (1922โ2011) never lost an election. First elected to the Oregon House of Repr...
Environmentalism in the United States Since 1945
The first balanced look at the evolution and significance of environmentalism, THE GREENING OF A NATION demonstrates the many attitudes Americans have...
This cross-continental history demonstrates Abraham Lincoln's strong connections with the Oregon Country on various political issues--Indian relations...
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1800 to the Present
Richard W. Etulain examines the emergence of Pacific Northwest prose beginning in the early nineteenth century up to the present. The book provides an...
Conversations On History And Literature
Wallace Stegner, a major American novelist and conservationist, is interviewed by Etulain, a renowned Western scholar, in a series of discussions. Ori...
As London joined Kelly's Industrial Army in 1894, starting in Oakland, CA and headed for Washington, D.C., he wrote of his travels while on the road. ...
Generations of Americans have seen the West as beyond federal control and direction. But the national governmentโs presence in the West dates to bef...
An Interpretive Biography
Charlie Siringo (1855โ1928) lived the quintessential life of adventure on the American frontier as a cowboy, Pinkerton detective, writer, and later ...
This book is a brief introduction to economic changes of a truly global dimension..... Since World War II, the world has become a much more homogenous...
Television and the American Experience Since 1945
More than any other aspect of American life, the history of television reveals the story of the reorientation of culture and the shift in American val...
Lives of Film Legends who Shaped it
Brings into focus the most influential characters and themes of the Hollywood Western....
A History of Native Americans Since 1945
A broad synthesis of contemporary Native American history, this vital and timely book surveys the recent political, economic, social, and cultural his...
A Brief History
A Western Legacy
"Abraham Lincoln had a long connection with the American West. Although not a popularly studied aspect of Lincoln's life, the West, including Dakota T...
Growing Up on a Basque Sheep Ranch
A sheepherder's son delivers a rare look at life on an early eastern Washington sheep ranch, recounting endless chores, lambing season, sheep shearing...
A Bibliography
A comprehensive bibliography of books, essays, and dissertations on the history and culture of the modern West, for students and scholars as well as g...
Lawmen & Outlaws in the Old West
Those profiled here -- from Wyatt Earp and Billy the Kid to Belle Starr and Doc Holliday -- remain larger than life....
Oregon Father of the Initiative, Referendum, and Recall
The largest by far of the fifty states, Alaska is also the one of greatest mystery and diversity. Geological forces have made its more than half-milli...
A Guide to Information Sources
This college memoir covers my five years--1955 to 1960--at Northwest Nazarene College (now University) in Nampa, Idaho. The story covers the usual ing...
Presents portraits of frontier figures such as Wyatt Earp, Billy the Kid, Belle Starr, and Jesse James, showing that the villains and heroes of the Ol...
A Concise History 3 Ed V2 + Does the Frontier Experience Make