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West

 

Connell, John, and Chris Gibson, “‘No Passport Necessary’: Music, Record Covers, and Vicarious Tourism in Post-War Hawai‘i,” Journal of Pacific History (Melbourne), 43 (June 2008), 51–75.

Flores, Dan, “Bringing Home All the Pretty Horses: The Horse Trade and the Early American West, 1775–1825,” Montana, 58 (Summer 2008), 3–21. Heavily illustrated.

 

Buss, James J., “The Winning of the West with Words: Clearing the Middle Ground for American Pioneers” (Purdue University, 2007). Order No. DA3286093.

Reich, Paul D., “Race-ing West: Propaganda and Pedagogy in African American Fiction, Poetry, and Autobiography” (Purdue University, 2007). Order No. DA3287207.

 

Bakken, Gordon Morris, ed., Icons of the American West: From Cowgirls to Silicon Valley. (Westport: Greenwood, 2008. Vol. 1: xxx, 328 pp. Vol. 2: xxx, 246 pp. $175.00/set, isbn 978-0-313-34148-9/set.)

Glasrud, Bruce A., and James M. Smallwood, eds., The African American Experience in Texas: An Anthology. (Lubbock: Texas Tech University Press, 2007. xxi, 404 pp. Paper, $40.00, isbn 978-0-89672-609-3.)

Kimura, Kazuo, Kita-Taiheiyo no “Hakken” (“Discovery” of the Northern Pacific). (Tokyo: Yamakawa shuppansha, 2007. 250 pp. ¥3,570, isbn 978-4-634-64025-2.) In Japanese.

Okihiro, Gary Y., ed., Island World: A History of Hawai‘i and the United States. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2008. xiv, 308 pp. $27.50, isbn 978-0-520-25299-8.)

Raphael, Ray, and Freeman House, Humbolt History, vol. 1: Two Peoples, One Place. (Eureka: Humbolt County Historical Society, 2007. x, 353 pp. $29.95, isbn 9781883254018.) Heavily illustrated.

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