Recent Scholarship
West
Alley, Bill, “‘Nightmare’ in Pen and Ink: ‘Pinto’ Colvig as Silver State Cartoonist,” Nevada Historical Society Quarterly, 48 (Fall 2005), 369–80.
Brumbaugh, Lee P., “Everyday Mysteries: Roy Curtis’s Photographs of Reno in the 1920s,” Nevada Historical Society Quarterly, 48 (Winter 2005), 431–64.
Cafferata, Patty, and Dale Erquiaga, “Special Interests Run Amuck: State Treasurer Eben Rhoades,” Nevada Historical Society Quarterly, 48 (Winter 2005), 465–85.
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.
Graves, Gregory R., “The Rhetoric of Opposition: Anticonservation and the Early Forest Reserves,” Journal of the West, 44 (Fall 2005), 11–17. Heavily illustrated.
Hummel, Laurel J., “The U.S. Military as Geographical Agent: The Case of Cold War Alaska,” Geographical Review, 95 (Jan. 2005), 47–72.
Iverson, Peter, “Discoverers, Pioneers, and Settlers: Toward a More Inclusive History of the North American West,” Western Historical Quarterly, 37 (Spring 2006), 5–19.
Leahy, Todd, “‘Beef Instead of Bayonets’: Cultural Mores and the Failure of Assimilation on the Kiowa-Comanche Reservation,” Chronicles of Oklahoma, 83 (Winter 2005–2006), 490–99.
Lee, Chang-Sin, “Miguk Seobu Gaechuk Sigieui Frontier Yeoseongdeulei kwanan Yeongu” (A study of frontier women during the westward movement in America), Migukhak Nonjip/Korean Journal of American Studies (Seoul), 37 (Fall 2005), 155–88. In Korean.
Lowitt, Richard, “Fort Sill Enters the Missile Age,” Chronicles of Oklahoma, 83 (Winter 2005–2006), 388–430.
Mighetto, Lisa, “The Strange Fate of the Black River: How Urban Engineering Shaped Lake Washington and the Duwamish River Watershed,” Journal of the West, 44 (Fall 2005), 47–57. Heavily illustrated.
Mullins, William H., “Businessman or Rogue? C. C. Julian in the Oklahoma Oil Fields,” Chronicles of Oklahoma, 83 (Winter 2005–2006), 466–89.
Rohrbough, Malcolm, “The California Gold Discoveries: The French View of Themselves and the World,” Common-Place, 6 (April 2006) http://www.common-place.org.
Sowards, Adam, “Modern Ahabs in Texas: William O. Douglas and Lone Star Conservation,” Journal of the West, 44 (Fall 2005), 39–46. Heavily illustrated.
Taylor, J., “Mapping Adventure: A Historical Geography of Yosemite Valley Climbing Landscapes,” Journal of Historical Geography (London), 32 (Jan. 2006), 190–219.
Wenger, Tisa, “‘We Are Guaranteed Freedom’: Pueblo Indians and the Category of Religion in the 1920s,” History of Religions, 45 (Nov. 2005), 89–113.
Worthen, James, “Sunny Jim in the Boiling Cauldron: The Fatal First Year of the Rolph Administration,” California History, 83 (no. 3, 2006), 28–44, 64–65. Heavily illustrated.
Addeo, Deborah Bershad, “The New York City Hall Portrait Collection, 1790–1830” (City University of New York, 2005). Order No. DA3187356.
Gruber, Laura Katherine, “Unstable Geographies: Context, Representation, and Ideology in American Western Writing, 1885–1927” (Washington State University, 2005). Order No. DA3184142.
King, Robert W., “Tales of Enchantment: Southwest Literature and Its Cultural Work, 1885–1930” (University of Utah, 2005). Order No. DA3181463.
Lee, Shelley Sang-Hee, “Cosmopolitan Identities: Japanese Americans in Seattle and the Pacific Rim, 1900–1942” (Stanford University, 2005). Order No. DA3186360.
Ostergren, Gail Ann, “Angels and Saints: Making and Promoting Place in Los Angeles and Southern California, 1890–1932” (University of California, Los Angeles, 2005). Order No. DA3181716.
Vetter, Jeremy, “The Regional Development of Science: Knowledge, Environment, and Field Work in the U.S. Central Plains and Rocky Mountains, 1860–1920” (University of Pennsylvania, 2005). Order No. DA3179825.
Wilson, Richard Arave, “The Development of the Idaho State Library: Chronicles and Narratives, 1901 to 2004” (University of Idaho, 2005). Order No. DA3178874.
Brooks, H. Allen, The Prairie School: Frank Lloyd Wright and His Midwest Contemporaries. (New York: Norton, 2006. xxiv, 373 pp. Paper, $25.00, isbn 0-393-73191-X.) Originally published in 1972. Heavily illustrated.
Haley, James L., Passionate Nation: The Epic History of Texas. (New York: Free Press, 2006. xviii, 636 pp. $35.00, isbn 0-684-86291-3.)
Hamill, James, Going Indian. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2006. xiv, 216 pp. Cloth, $40.00, isbn 0-252-03032-X. Paper, $20.00, isbn 0-252-07279-0.)
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.)
Layman, William D., River of Memory: The Everlasting Columbia. (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2006. xvi, 150 pp. Cloth, $40.00, isbn 0-295-98591-7. Paper, $24.95, isbn 0-295-98592-5.) Heavily illustrated.
Szasz, Ferenc M., Larger Than Life: New Mexico in the Twentieth Century. (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2006. xviii, 298 pp. Paper, $22.95, isbn 0-8263-3883-6.) Citations to relevant essays can be found in “Recent Scholarship Online” /rso/.
Wehrey, Jane, Voices from This Long Brown Land: Oral Recollections of Owens Valley Lives and Manzanar Pasts. (New York: Palgrave, 2006. xiv, 238 pp. Cloth, $69.95, isbn 0-312-29539-1. Paper, $24.95, isbn 0-312-29541-3.)
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.)
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