Recent Scholarship
West
Chandler, Robert, ed., “Museums of the American West,” Journal of the West, 46 (Winter 2007), 7–53. Special issue. Heavily illustrated.
Collins, Ross F., “Cattle Barons and Ink Slingers: How Cow Country Journalists Created a Great American Myth,” American Journalism, 24 (Summer 2007), 7–29.
Lewinnek, Elaine, “The Kaweah Co-operative Commonwealth and the Contested Nature of Sequoia National Park,” Southern California Quarterly, 89 (Summer 2007), 141–67.
Steele, Volney, ed., “Medicine in the Frontier West,” Journal of the West, 46 (Summer 2007), 9–49. Special issue.
Clapp, Nicholas, Who Killed Chester Pray? A Death Valley Mystery. (Cheyenne: La Frontera, 2007. viii, 263 pp. Paper, $22.95, isbn 978-0-9785634-2-4.)
DeArment, Robert K., Deadly Dozen: Forgotten Gunfighters of the Old West, vol. 2. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2007. x, 351 pp. $29.95, isbn 978-0-8061-3863-3.)
Dunbar-Ortiz, Roxanne, Roots of Resistance: A History of Land Tenure in New Mexico. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2007. xviii, 239 pp. Paper, $19.95, isbn 978-0-8061-3833-6.) Originally published in 1980.
Etulain, Richard W., and Michael P. Malone, The American West: A Modern History, 1900 to the Present. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2007. xvi, 413 pp. Paper, $19.95, isbn 978-0-8032-6022-1.) Second edition.
Gonzales, Phillip B., ed., Expressing New Mexico: Nuevomexicano Creativity, Ritual, and Memory. (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2007. x, 319 pp. Paper, $24.95, isbn 978-0-8165-2628-4.)
Monday, Jane Clements, and Frances Brannen Vick, Petra’s Legacy: The South Texas Ranching Empire of Petra Vela and Mifflin Kenedy. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2007. xiv, 430 pp. $35.00, isbn 978-1-58544-614-8.)
Braden, Twain, Ghosts of the Pioneers: A Family Search for the Independent Oregon Colony of 1844. (New York: Lyons, 2007. xvi, 288 pp. $24.95, isbn 978-1-59921-041-4.)
Hayes, Derek, Historical Atlas of California: With Original Maps. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2007. 256 pp. $39.95, isbn 978-0-520-25258-5.) Heavily illustrated.
Robinson, Charles M., III, ed., The Diaries of John Gregory Bourke, vol. 3: June 1, 1878–June 22, 1880. (Denton: University of North Texas Press, 2007. xiv, 555 pp. $55.00, isbn 978-1-57441-196-6.)
Rothman, Hal K., Playing the Odds: Las Vegas and the Modern West, ed. Lincoln Bramwell. (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2007. xx, 262 pp. Paper, $24.95, isbn 978-0-8263-2112-1.)
Swett, Leonard Herbert, “A Young Man Returns to the West: The 1880 Letters of Leonard Herbert Swett,” ed. Dove Menkes, Utah Historical Quarterly, 75 (Fall 2007), 342–63.
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