Recent Scholarship
West
Alpern, Sara, “Harriet Williams Russell Strong: Inventor and California Businesswoman Extraordinaire,” Southern California Quarterly, 87 (Fall 2005), 223–68. Heavily illustrated.
Apostol, Jane, “District Attorney Thomas Lee Woolwine: Stormy Petrel of Politics,” Southern California Quarterly, 87 (Winter 2005–2006), 377–96. Heavily illustrated.
Arp, Don, Jr., “The Face behind the Knife: A Study of the James Bowie Portrait Purchased by the Texas Historical Commission and the State Preservation Board,” Southwestern Historical Quarterly, 109 (Jan. 2006), 303–17.
Bailey, James M., “Reconsideration and Reconciliation: Arizona’s ‘Brothers Udall’ and the Grand Canyon Dams Controversy, 1961–1968,” New Mexico Historical Review, 80 (Spring 2005), 133–62.
Baumler, Ellen, “Montana Episode: The Masonic Apron of Meriwether Lewis and the Legacy of Masonry in Montana,” Montana, 55 (Winter 2005), 54–59. Heavily illustrated.
Bell, Walter F., “Civil War Texas: A Review of the Historical Literature,” Southwestern Historical Quarterly, 109 (Oct. 2005), 205–32.
Benton-Cohen, Katherine, “Common Purposes, Worlds Apart: Mexican-American, Mormon, and Midwestern Women Homesteaders in Cochise County, Arizona,” Western Historical Quarterly, 36 (Winter 2005), 429–52.
Boag, Peter, “Go West Young Man, Go East Young Woman: Searching for the Trans in Western Gender History,” Western Historical Quarterly, 36 (Winter 2005), 477–97.
Broussard, Albert S., “The Honolulu naacp and Race Relations in Hawai’i,” Hawaiian Journal of History, 39 (2005), 115–33.
Carrigan, William D., and Clive Webb, “‘A Dangerous Experiment’: The Lynching of Rafael Benavides,” New Mexico Historical Review, 80 (Summer 2005), 265–92.
Cashion, Ty, “What’s the Matter with Texas? The Great Enigma of the Lone Star State in the American West,” Montana, 55 (Winter 2005), 2–15. Heavily illustrated.
Castaneda, Christopher J., “From Manufactured to Natural Gas in California,” Journal of the West, 44 (Winter 2005), 18–26. Heavily illustrated.
Chamberlain, Kathleen P., “In the Shadow of Billy the Kid: Susan McSween and the Lincoln County War,” Montana, 55 (Winter 2005), 36–53. Heavily illustrated.
Clemmons, Linda, “‘We Will Talk of Nothing Else’: Dakota Interpretations of the Treaty of 1837,” Great Plains Quarterly, 25 (Summer 2005), 173–86.
Crain, John W., “Isaac Watts Burton: The Glorious Years, 1832–1843,” Southwestern Historical Quarterly, 109 (Oct. 2005), 173–87.
Denzer, Anthony, “Community Homes: Race, Politics, and Architecture in Postwar Los Angeles,” Southern California Quarterly, 87 (Fall 2005), 269–85. Heavily illustrated.
Dorn, Charles, “‘I Had All Kinds of Kids in My Classes, and It Was Fine’: Public Schooling in Richmond, California, during World War II,” History of Education Quarterly, 45 (Winter 2005), 338–64.
Dunaway, David K., “Pacifica Radio and Community Broadcasting,” Journal of Radio Studies, 12 (Dec. 2005), 240–55.
Fouillade, Claude J., “Subject of Inquiry: An 1873 Expedition through New Mexico and Arizona,” New Mexico Historical Review, 80 (Summer 2005), 309–24.
Friedberger, Mark, “Development, Politics, and the Rural-Urban Fringe in North Texas,” Southwestern Historical Quarterly, 109 (Jan. 2006), 359–83.
Haley, Brian D., “The Case of the Three Baltazars: Indigenization and the Vicissitudes of the Written Word,” Southern California Quarterly, 87 (Winter 2005–2006), 397–411. Heavily illustrated.
Hegi, Benjamin Paul, “‘Old Time Good Germans’: German-Americans in Cooke County, Texas, during World War I,” Southwestern Historical Quarterly, 109 (Oct. 2005), 235–57.
Hyde, Anne F., “The Disadvantages of Hindsight: A Re-Reading of the Early American West,” oah Magazine of History, 19 (Nov. 2005), 7–11.
Ireland, Brian, “Remembering and Forgetting at the Waikiki War Memorial Park and Natatorium,” Hawaiian Journal of History, 39 (2005), 53–74.
Kato, Tetsuzo, “Tetsukazu no seibu toiu shinwa” (The myth of the untouched west), in Kankyo to keikan no shakaishi (A social history of the environment and scenery), ed. You Tokuhashi, . (Tokyo: Bunka shobo hakubun sha, 2004. isbn 4830109432.) In Japanese.
Klingle, Matthew W., “Fluid Dynamics: Water, Power, and the Reengineering of Seattle’s Duwamish River,” Journal of the West, 44 (Summer 2005), 22–29. Heavily illustrated.
Knight, Larry, “The Cart War: Defining American in San Antonio in the 1850s,” Southwestern Historical Quarterly, 109 (Jan. 2006), 319–35.
Marak, Andrae, “Forging Identity: Mexican Federal Frontier Schools, 1924–1935,” New Mexico Historical Review, 80 (Spring 2005), 163–88.
Purcell, Fernando, “‘Too Many Foreigners For My Taste’: Law, Race, and Ethnicity in California, 1848–1852,” in Evil, Law, and the State: Perspectives on State Power and Violence, ed. John T. Parry, 17–29. (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2006. €46.00, isbn 90-420-1748-1.)
Rutherford, Janice Williams, “Historic Corbin Park: Preservation Success Story or Study in Challenges?,” Public Historian, 27 (Fall 2005), 45–63.
Scott, George W., “Scandinavians in Washington Politics,” Swedish-American Historical Quarterly, 56 (Oct. 2005), 231–69.
Stern, A. Kenneth, and Dan D. Chávez, “From Clerk to Professional: New Mexico’s Superintendency and the Superintendents of Public Instruction, 1891–1916,” New Mexico Historical Review, 80 (Spring 2005), 189–224.
Sturdevant, Paul E., “Robert John Walker and Texas Annexation: A Lost Champion,” Southwestern Historical Quarterly, 109 (Oct. 2005), 189–202.
Turner, Lillian, “The Legendary Earl Durand: Wyoming’s ‘Tarzan of the Tetons,’” Montana, 55 (Autumn 2005), 48–57.
Watts, Jennifer A., “Photography in the Land of Sunshine: Charles Fletcher Lummis and the Regional Ideal,” Southern California Quarterly, 87 (Winter 2005–2006), 339–76. Heavily illustrated.
Wellock, Thomas, “Atomic Power in the West,” Journal of the West, 44 (Winter 2005), 45–54. Heavily illustrated.
Work, Clemens P., “‘Good Night with the Stars and Stripes, Army, Navy, and Mister Damned Wilson’: Montana’s Central Role in the Repression—and Eventual Recognition—of Free Speech,” Montana, 55 (Winter 2005), 16–35. Heavily illustrated.
Work, David, “United States Colored Troops in Texas during Reconstruction, 1865–1867,” Southwestern Historical Quarterly, 109 (Jan. 2006), 337–57.
Aikau, Hokulani Kamakanikailialoha, “Polynesian Pioneers: Twentieth-Century Religious Racial Formations and Migration in Hawai‘i” (University of Minnesota, 2005). Order No. DA3172777.
Booker, Matthew Morse, “Real Estate and Refuge: An Environmental History of San Francisco Bay’s Tidal Wetlands, 1846–1972” (Stanford University, 2005). Order No. DA3171753.
Enloe, Karin M., “Willie, Waylon, Buck, and Merle: Nashville Outlaws and the American West” (Arizona State University, 2005). Order No. DA3166925.
Kam, Ralph Thomas, “Mediator and Advocate: The History of the Honolulu Community-Media Council” (University of Hawai‘i, 2005). Order No. DA3171053.
Prouty, Marco Glen, “Cesar Chavez and the Catholic Civil War, 1965–1977” (Catholic University of America, 2005). Order No. DA3169869.
St. John, Rachel C., “Line in the Sand: The Desert Border between the United States and Mexico, 1848–1934” (Stanford University, 2005). Order No. DA3171709.
Strathman, Theodore Andrew, “‘Dream of a big city’: Water Politics and San Diego County Growth, 1910–1947” (University of California, San Diego, 2005). Order No. DA3169320.
Traylor, Ronald D., “Barrett Station, Texas: Life in a Black Community, 1865–2005” (University of Houston, 2005). Order No. DA3171380.
Tu, Wei, “Environmental Impacts of the Digital Economy: The Case of Austin, Texas, 1990–2008” (Texas A&M University, 2004). Order No. DA3172172.
Early, Joseph E., Jr., A Texas Baptist Power Struggle: The Hayden Controversy. (Denton: University of North Texas Press, 2005. xiv, 172 pp. $39.95, isbn 1-57441-195-0.)
Hartman, Monte, ed., America’s 100th Meridian: A Plains Journey. (Lubbock: Texas Tech University Press, 2005. xxii, 113 pp. $39.95, isbn 0-89672-561-8.) Heavily illustrated.
Kinsey, Joni L., Thomas Moran’s West: Chromolithography, High Art, and Popular Taste. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2006. xii, 260 pp. $45.00, isbn 0-7006-1413-3.) Heavily illustrated.
Lowitt, Richard, American Outback: The Oklahoma Panhandle in the Twentieth Century. (Lubbock: Texas Tech University Press, 2006. xxii, 137 pp. $21.95, isbn 0-89672-558-8.)
Molnár, László Miklós, A híres vadnyugat (The famous wild west). (Dabas: Reálsazisztéma Dabasi Nyomda, 2003. vi, 344 pp. isbn 963-212-349-2.) In Hungarian.
Steele, Thomas J., and Florence Byham Weinberg, “By Letter: Three Years in the Life of Vicar Machebeuf,” New Mexico Historical Review, 80 (Summer 2005), 293–308.
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