Recent Scholarship
Transportation, Travel, and Exploration
Aldrich, Mark, “A Mighty Rough Road: The Deterioration of Work Safety on American Railroads, 1955–75,” Labor History, 46 (Aug. 2005), 307–28.
Alonso, Kathleen, “3,937 Pounds of Letters: National Air Mail Week in Nebraska, May 1938,” Nebraska History, 86 (Winter 2005), 110–23.
Bakken, Dawn E., “A Young Hoosier’s Adventures on the Mississippi River,” Indiana Magazine of History, 102 (March 2006), 1–7.
Bonfield, Lynn A., “Ho for California! Caledonia County Gold Miners,” Vermont History, 74 (Winter–Spring 2006), 5–47.
Buchanan, Thomas C., “Race and (In)justice on the Mississippi: An Episode from ‘The Journals of the Davy Crockett,’” Indiana Magazine of History, 102 (March 2006), 25–28.
Bunting, Robert, “Michael Luark and Settler Culture in the Western Pacific Northwest, 1853–1899,” Pacific Northwest Quarterly, 96 (Fall 2005), 198–205. Heavily illustrated.
Byl, Neil F., “William Moulton’s Endless Revolution: Deep-Sea Mutiny and Frontier Politics in the Early American Republic,” Pennsylvania History, 69 (Summer 2002), 393–428.
Camp, Gregory S., “The Corps of Discovery and the Final Challenges in Reaching the Pacific Ocean,” North Dakota History, 72 (nos. 1–2, 2005), 47–54. Heavily illustrated.
Douma, Michael J., “Struggle against the Sand: The Development of the Harbor at Holland, Michigan, 1847–1881,” Inland Seas, 61 (Winter 2005), 282–93.
Hepp, John H., IV, “‘Such a Well-Behaved Train Station’: Evolving Spatial Patterns at Philadelphia’s Late-Victorian Central Passenger Depots, 1876–1901,” Pennsylvania History, 70 (Winter 2003), 1–27.
Jakle, John A., and Keith A. Sculle, “The American Hotel in Postcard Advertising: An Image Gallery,” Material Culture, 37 (Fall 2005), 1–25.
Keirstead, Christopher M., “In Search of the ‘Great Human Family’: Tourism, Mass Culture, and the Knowable Community of Dickens’ American Notes,” Nineteenth-Century Prose, 33 (Spring 2006), 117–32.
Kitch, Carolyn, “‘A Piazza from which the View Is Constantly Changing’: The Promise of Class and Gender Mobility on the Pennsylvania Railroad’s Cross-Country Tours,” Pennsylvania History, 72 (Autumn 2005), 505–27.
Louter, David B., “Wilderness on Display: Shifting Ideals of Cars and National Parks,” Journal of the West, 44 (Fall 2005), 29–38. Heavily illustrated.
Lubetkin, M. John, “‘Twenty-Six Feet and No Bottom’: Surveying and Constructing the Northern Pacific Railroad,” Minnesota History, 60 (Spring 2006), 4–17.
Pieczynski, Christopher J., “Two Little Ships: Naval Action during the Conspiracy of Pontiac,” Inland Seas, 61 (Winter 2005), 294–309.
Rohrbough, Malcolm, “The California Gold Discoveries: The French View of Themselves and the World,” Common-Place, 6 (April 2006) http://www.common-place.org.
Swensen, James R., “Passing Through: Arthur Rothstein’s Photographic Account of Utah, March 1940,” Utah Historical Quarterly, 74 (Winter 2006), 66–78.
Watts, Liz, “The Flying Newsboy Takes to the Air,” Nebraska History, 86 (Winter 2005), 132–45.
Abbott, Carl, Frontiers Past and Future: Science Fiction and the American West. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2006. x, 230 pp. $29.95, isbn 0-7006-1430-3.)
Brecher, Frank W., Negotiating the Louisiana Purchase: Robert Livingston’s Mission to France, 1801–1804. (Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland, 2006. vi, 194 pp. Paper, $35.00, isbn 0-7864-2395-1.)
Hollis, Tim, Glass Bottom Boats and Mermaid Tails: Florida’s Tourist Springs. (Mechanicsburg: Stackpole, 2006. vi, 154 pp. Paper, $19.95, isbn 0-8117-3266-5.) Heavily illustrated.
Janin, Hunt, Claiming the American Wilderness: International Rivalry in the Trans-Mississippi West, 1528–1803. (Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland, 2006. x, 268 pp. Paper, $35.00, isbn 0-7864-2551-2.)
Josephy, Alvin M., Jr., ed., Lewis and Clark through Indian Eyes. (New York: Knopf, 2006. xviii, 192 pp. $24.00, isbn 1-4000-4267-4.)
Krim, Arthur, Route 66: Iconography of the American Highway, ed. Denis Wood. (Santa Fe: Center for American Places, 2005. xx, 220 pp. $35.00, isbn 1-930066-35-X.) Heavily illustrated.
Kutz, Kevin, Lincoln Highway: Painting and Drawings. (Mechanicsburg: Stackpole, 2006. vi, 122 pp. Paper, $29.95, isbn 0-8117-3264-9.) Heavily illustrated.
Lubetkin, M. John, Jay Cooke’s Gamble: The Northern Pacific Railroad, the Sioux, and the Panic of 1873. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2006. xviii, 380 pp. $29.95, isbn 0-8061-3740-1.)
Wilson, Robert, The Explorer King: Adventure, Science, and the Great Diamond Hoax—Clarence King in the Old West. (New York: Scribner’s, 2006. xiv, 303 pp. $26.00, isbn 0-7432-6025-2.)
Wyckoff, William, On the Road Again: Montana’s Changing Landscape. (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2006. xviii, 180 pp. Paper, $26.95, isbn 0-295-98612-3.) Heavily illustrated.
Field, Martha R., Louisiana Voyages: The Travel Writings of Catharine Cole, ed. Joan B. McLaughlin and Jack McLaughlin. (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2006. xx, 236 pp. Cloth, $50.00, isbn 1-57806-825-8. Paper, $20.00, isbn 1-57806-826-6.)
Jaquess, Asbury C., “‘The Journals of the Davy Crockett commencing December 20th, 1834,’” Indiana Magazine of History, 102 (March 2006), 8–24.
Marino, Cesare, and Karim M. Tiro, eds., Along the Hudson and Mohawk: The 1790 Journey of Count Paolo Andreani. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006. xii, 115 pp. $35.00, isbn 0-8122-3914-8.)
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