Sept. 21: Western Travel and Transportation
Guidebooks and Travel Accounts.
Following are two types of works: contemporary accounts of early travel and travel guidebooks relied upon by early-day travelers. Both types are included in this list. Travel guidebooks were among the first works describing the American West and Wyoming to the rest of the world.
Bonney/Bonney, Guide to Wyoming Mountains and Wilderness Areas (1977)
Doyle, Journey to the Land of Gold (2 vols).
Franzwa, Lincoln Highway (1995)
Franzwa, Oregon Trail Revisited (1997)
Fremont, Report of the Exploring Expedition to the Rocky Mountains in the year 1842…(1845)
Gibson, California Through Russian Eyes, 1806-1848.
Gladding, Across the Continent by the Lincoln Highway (1915)
Hokanson, Lincoln Highway: Main Street Across America (1988)
Irving, Astoria
Irving, Adventures of Captain Bonneville
Kime, The Sherman Tour Journals of Col. Richard I. Dodge (2002)
Kohl, Martin, Brinkman (eds)., A Triceratops Hunt in Pioneer Wyoming
Moulton, Journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition.*
Moulton, Roadside History of Wyoming (1995)
Munkres, Saleratus and Sagebrush (1974)
Parkman, The Oregon Trail
Osborne Russell, Journal of a Trapper
Spring, Cheyenne and Black Hills Stage and Express Routes (1949)
Spring, WPA Guide to Wyoming (1941)
Stansbury, Exploration and Survey of the Valley of Great Salt Lake (1852)
Strahorn, Handbook of Wyoming and Guide to the Black Hills (1877)
Triggs, History of Cheyenne and Northern Wyoming (1876)
Wyoming State Board of Immigration, The Territory of Wyoming: Its History, Soil, Climate… (1873) &
Sept. 28: Agriculture, Ranching, Public Lands
Agriculture
Arrington, Leonard. Beet Sugar in the West: A History of the Utah-Idaho Sugar Company, 1891-1966.
(Seattle: Univ. of Washington Press, 1966). HD9109 U7 A7
Baron, Hal S. Mixed Harvest: The Second Great Transformation in the Rural North, 1870-1930. (Chapel
Hill: UNC Press, 1997). HN57 B334
Danysk, Cecilia. Hired Hands: Labour and the Development of Prairie Agriculture, 1889-1930. (1995)
Canada. HD1530 P7 D36
Daniel, Cletus E. Bitter Harvest: A History of California Farmworkers, 1870-1941. (Ithaca: Cornell
University Press, 1981) HD1527 C2 D34
Fiege, Mark. Irrigated Eden: The Making of an Agricultural Landscape in the American West. (Seattle:
Univ. of Washington Press, 1999). S616 U654
Fite, Gilbert C. George N. Peek and the Fight for Farm Parity. (Norman: Univ. of Oklahoma Press,
1954). HD1761 .F56 1954
Garcia, Matt. A World of Its Own: Race, Labor and Citrus in the Making of Greater Los Angeles, 1900-
1970. (Chapel Hill: UNC Press, 2001). F869 L89 A253
Grant, H. Roger and L. Edward Purcell (eds.) Years of Struggle: The Farm Diary of Elmer C. Powers,
1931-1936. (Ames: Iowa State Press, 1976). S417 P64 A36
Green, Donald E. Land of the Underground Rain: Irrigation on the Texas High Plains, 1910-1970.
(Austin: University of Texas Press, 1973). S616 U6 G73
Hurt, R. Douglas. The Rural West since World War II. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1998). F595
R85 1998
Igler, David. Industrial Cowboys: Miller and Lux and the Transformation of the Far West, 1850-1920.
(Berkeley: Univ. of Calif. Press, 2001). Available electronically from Coe
Isern, Thomas D. Custom Combining on the Great Plains: A History. (Norman: University of Oklahoma
Press, 1981). S699 I78
Iverson, Peter. When Indians Became Cowboys: Native Peoples and Cattle Ranching in the American
West. (Norman: Univ. of Oklahoma Press, 1994). E78 W5 I94
Knobloch, Frieda. The Culture of Wilderness: Agriculture as Colonization in the American West. (Chapel
Hill: UNC, 1996). S441 .K57 1996
Miner, Craig. Harvesting the High Plains: John Kriss and the Business of Wheat Farming., 1920-1950.
(Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1998). S417 K748 M55
Mitchell, Don. The Lie of the Land: Migrant Workers and the California Landscape. (Minneapolis: Univ.
of Minnesota Press, 1996). HD1527 C2 M58
Nelson, Paula M. After the West Was Won: Homesteaders and Town-Builders in Western South Dakota,
1900-1917. (Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 1989). F656 N45
Pisani, Donald J. From Family Farm to Agribusiness: The Irrigation Crusade in California and the West,
1850-1931. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1984). HD1739 C2 P57
Rothenberg, Daniel. With These Hands: The Hidden World of Migrant Farmworkers Today. (New York:
Harcourt Brace, 1998). HD1525 R67
Rowley, William D. The U. S. Forest Service Grazing and Rangelands: A History. (College Station:
Texas A&M Press, 1985). SD427 G8 R74
Ruiz, Vicki. Cannery Women, Cannery Lives: Mexican Women, Unionization and the California Food
Processing Industry, 1930-1950. (Albuquerque: UNM Press, 1987). HD6515 F72 U547
Sackman, Douglas C. Orange Empire: California and the Fruits of Eden. (Berkeley: University of
California Press, 2005). Available online through Coe
Street, Richard Steven. Beasts of the Field: A Narrative History of California Farmworkers, 1769-1913
. (Stanford University Press, 2004). HD1527 C2 S84
Stoll, Steven. The Fruits of Natural Advantage: Making the Industrial Countryside in California.
(Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998). HD9247.C2 S73 1998
Svobida, Lawrence. Farming the Dust Bowl: A First-Hand Account from Kansas. (Lawrence: University
Press of Kansas, 1986).
Vaught, David. Cultivating California: Growers, Specialty Crops and Labor, 1875-1920. (Baltimore:
Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, 1999). HD1527 C2 V38
Weisiger, Marsha L. Land of Plenty: Oklahomans in the Cotton Fields of Arizona, 1933-1942. (Norman:
University of Oklahoma Press, 1995). HD1527 A9 H34
White, Robert. The Frannie-Deaver Proposition: A Chronicle of Optimism and Alkali. (Cheyenne:
Frontier Printing, 1990). HD1739 W8 W448
Williams, Robert C. Fordson, Farmall and Poppin’ Johnny: A History of the Farm Tractor and Its Impact
on America. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1987). S711 W54 Sci.
Wishart, David J. The Last Days of the Rainbelt. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2014).
Worster, Donald. Dust Bowl: The Southern Plains in the 1930s. (New York: Oxford, 1979). F786 W87
Wrobel, David M. Promised Lands: Promotion, Memory and the Creation of the American West.
(Lawrence: Univ. Press of Kansas, 2002). F591 .W93 2002
Land
Ambler, Marjane. Breaking the Iron Bonds. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1990). E98 L3 A43
Donahue, Debra L. Western Range Revisited: Removing Livestock from Public Lands to Conserve Native
Biodiversity. (Norman: Univ. of Oklahoma Press, 1999). QH76.5 W34 D66
Ebright, Malcolm. Land Grants and Lawsuits in Northern New Mexico. (Albuquerque: UNM Press, 1994). Not in Coe.
Ebright, Malcolm. Tierra Amarilla Grant: A History of Chicanery. (Santa Fe: Council for Land Studies,
1980). HD268 T53 E24
Fradkin, Philip L. Sagebrush Country: Land and the American West. (NY: Knopf, 1989). F832 U39 F73
Frazier, Ian. Great Plains. (New York: Viking, 1989). F591 F83
Kelly, Susan Croce, and Quinta Scott. Route 66: The Highway and Its People. (Norman: University of
Oklahoma Press, 1988). HE356.U55 S25 1988
Malin, James C. History and Ecology: Studies of the Grassland.(Lincoln: Nebr. Press, 1984). GF504
W35 M34
Marston, Ed. (ed.) Reopening the Western Frontier. (Washington: Island Press, 1989). HC107 A17 R46
Merrill, Karen. Public Lands and Political Meaning: Ranchers, the Government, and the Property Between
Them. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002). KF5605 .M47
Mitchell, Donald Craig. Take My Land, Take My Life: The Story of Congress’s Historic Settlement of
Alaska Native Land Claims, 1960-1971. (Fairbanks: Univ. of Alaska Press, 2001). KFA1705.6
C57 M58 2001
Orsi, Richard. Sunset Limited: The Southern Pacific Railroad and the Development of the American West.
(Berkeley: University of Califonria Press, 2005). HE2791.S794 O77 2005
Peffer, E. Louise. The Closing of the Public Domain: Disposal and Reservation Politics, 1900-1950.
(Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1951). HD216 P44
Wyant, William K. Westward in Eden: The Public Lands and the Conservation Movement. (Berkeley:
University of California Press, 1982). HD205 1982 W9
Oct. 5: Water and the Environment
Water
Abbey, Edward. The Monkey Wrench Gang. (Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1975). PS3551 B2 M65
Baxter, John O. Dividing New Mexico’s Waters, 1700-1912. (Albuquerque: UNM Press, 1997). Not in Coe
Brown, F. Lee and Helen M. Ingram. Water and Poverty in the Southwest. (Tucson: University of Arizona
Press, 1987). HD1695 A165 B76
Burton, Lloyd. American Indian Water Rights and the Limits of Law. (Lawrence: University Press of
Kansas, 1991). KF8210 N37 B87
Carrels, Peter. Uphill Against Water: The Great Dakota Water War. (Lincoln: Univ. of Nebraska Press,
1999). TC424 S8 C37
deBuys, William. Salt Dreams: Land and Water in Low-Down California. (Albuquerque: Univ. of New
Mexico Press, 1999).
Elkind, Sarah. Bay Cities and Water Politics: The Battle for Resources in Boston and Oakland.
(Lawrence: Univ. Press of Kansas, 1998).
Farmer, Jared. Glen Canyon Dammed: Inventing Lake Powell and the Canyon Country. (Tucson:
University of Arizona Press, 1999). F832.G5 F37 1999
Hiltzik, Michael. Colossus: Koover Dam and the Making of the American Century. (New York: Free Press, 2010).
Hundley, Norris. The Great Thirst: Californians and Water, 1770s-1990s. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992).
Hundley, Norris. Water and the West: The Colorado River Compact and the Politics of Water in the
American West. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1975). KF5590 C57 H86
Hurt, R. Douglas. The Dust Bowl: An Agricultural and Social History. (Chicago: Nelson-Hall, 1981).
S441 H92
Kahrl, William L. Water and Power: The Conflict over Los Angeles’ Water Supply in the Owens Valley.
(Berkeley: University of California Press, 1982). HD4464 L7 K33
Kluger, James R. Turning on Water with a Shovel: The Career of Elwood Mead. (Albuquerque: UNM
Press, 1992). TC928.2 M43 K58
Lookingbill, Brad D. Dust Bowl USA: Depression America and Ecological Imagination, 1929-1941.
(Athens: Ohio University Presss, 2001). F595 L66
McCool, Daniel. Command of the Waters: Iron Triangles, Federal Water Development, and Indian
Water. (Berkeley: Univ. of Calif. Press, 1987). HD1694 A5 M4
Opie, John. Ogallala: Water for a Dry Land. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1993).
Phillips, Fred M., G. Emlen Hall and Mary E. Black. Reining in the Rio Grande: People, Land and Water. (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2014).
Pisani, Donald J. Water and American Government: The Reclamation Bureau, National Water Policy,
and the West, 1902-1935. (Berkeley: Univ. of California Press, 2002). TC823.6 .P57 2002
Pisani, Donald J. Water, Land and Law in the West: The Limits of Public Policy, 1850-1920. (Lawrence:
University Press of Kansas, 1996). HD1695 W4 P57
Pitzer, Paul C. Grand Coulee: Harnessing a Dream. (Pullman: WSU Press, 1994).
Reisner, Marc. Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water. (New York: Viking,
1986). HD1739 A17 R45
Rowley, William D. Reclaiming the Arid West: The Career of Francis G. Newlands. (Bloomington:
Indiana Univ. Press, 1996). E664 N4 R69
Stevens, Joseph. Hoover Dam: An American Adventure. (Norman: Univ. of Oklahoma Press, 1988). TC
557.5 H6 S74
Taylor, Joseph E. III. Making Salmon: An Environmental History of the Northwest Fisheries Crisis.
(Seattle: Univ. of Washington Press, 1999).SH348 T39 1999
Worster, Donald. A River Running West: The Life of John Wesley Powell. (New York: Oxford Univ.
Press, 2001). F788 P88 W67 2001
Worster, Donald. Rivers of Empire: Water, Aridity and the Growth of the American West. (New York:
Pantheon, 1985). HC107 A17 W67
The Environment
Barringer, Mark D. Selling Yellowstone: Capitalism and the Construction of Nature. (Lawrence: Univ.
Press of Kansas, 2002). F722 B27
Bartlett, Richard A. Yellowstone: A Wilderness Besieged. (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1985).
F722 B33 1985
Blackford, Mansel G. Fragile Paradise: The Impact of Tourism in Maui, 1959-2000. (Lawrence: Univ.
Press of Kansas, 2001). TD195 T68 B53
Burnham, Philip. Indian Country, God’s Country: Native Americans and National Parks. (Washington:
Island Press, 2000). E98 L3 B87
Chase, Alston. Playing God in Yellowstone: The Destruction of America’s First National Park. (San
Diego: Harcourt Brace, 1987). QH76.5 Y45 C47
Cutright, Paul. Lewis and Clark: Pioneering Naturalists. Rev. Ed. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2003). (original edition was published in 1969 by the University of Illinois Press)
Dax, Michael J. Grizzly West: A Failed Attempt to Reintroduce Grizzly Bears in the Mountain West. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2015).
Hise, Greg and William Deverell. Eden by Design: The 1930 Olmstad-Bartholomew Plan for the Los
Angeles Region. (Berkeley: Univ. of Calif. Press, 2000). Not in Coe.
Jacoby, Karl. Crimes Against Nature: Squatters, Poachers, Thieves and the Hidden History of American
Conservation. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001). SB486 S65 J34
Kaufman, Polly Welts. National Parks and the Women’s Voice: A History. (Albuquerque: UNM Press,
1996). SB481.5 K38
Kaye, Roger. Last Great Wilderness: The Campaign to Establish the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
(Fairbanks: University of Alaska Press, 2010).
Keller, Robert H. and Michael F. Turek. American Indians and National Parks. (Tucson: University of
Arizona Press, 1998).E93 .K25 1998
Louter, David. Windshield Wilderness: Cars, Roads and Nature in Washington’s National Parks. (Seattle:
University of Washington Press, 2006). SB486 P83 L68
Maher, Neil M. Nature’s New Deal: The Civilian Conservation Corps and the Roots of the American Environmental Movement. (Oxford University Press, 2008).
Meyerson, Harvey. Nature’s Army: When Soldiers Fought for Yosemite. (Lawrence: Univ. Press of
Kansas, 2001). Not in Coe
Peacock, Doug. Grizzly Years: In Search of the American Wilderness. (New York: Henry Holt, 1990).
QL737 C27 P366
Pomeroy, Earl. In Search of the Golden West: The Tourist in Western America. (New York: Knopf, 1957).
F595 P78
Righter, Robert W. The Battle over Hetch-Hetchy: America’s Most Controversial Dam and the Bird of
Modern Environmentalism. (New York: Oxford, 2005). TD225.S25 R54 2005
Rothman, Hal K. Blazing Heritage: A History of Wildland Fire in the National Parks. (New York: Oxford,
2007). SD421.3 R68 2007
Rothman, Hal K. Devil’s Bargain: Tourism in the 20th Century American West. (Lawrence: University
Press of Kansas, 1998). G155 U6 R66
Runte, Alfred. National Parks: The American Experience. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1979).
E160 R78
Schrepfer, Susan R. The Fight to Save the Redwoods: A History of Environmental Reform, 1917-1978.
(Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1983). SD397 R3 S37 1983
Schullery, Paul. Searching for Yellowstone: Ecology and Wonder in the Last Wilderness. (Boston:
Houghton Mifflin, 1997, reissued by the Montana Historical Society Press, 2004). F722 S378
Sellars, Richard West. Preserving Nature in the National Parks: A History. (New Haven: Yale Univ.
Press, 1997). Not in Coe
Spence, Mark David. Dispossessing the Wilderness: Indian Removal and the Making of the National
Parks. (N. Y.: Oxford University Press, 1999). E98 R4 S64
Strong, Douglas H. Tahoe: An Environmental History. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1984).
HT392.5 T3 S77
Wilkins, Thurman. John Muir: Apostle of Nature. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1995). Not in Coe
Wrobel, David, and Patrick T. Long (eds.) Seeing and Being Seen: Tourism in the American West.
(Lawrence: Univ. Press of Kansas, 2001). G155 U6 S42 2001
Yochim, Michael. Protecting Yellowstone: Science and the Politics of National Park Management. (Alburquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2010).
Recreation
Allen, Michael. Rodeo Cowboys in the North American Imagination. (Reno: Univ. of Nevada Press,
1998). GV1834 A55
Bunten, Alexis. So, How Long Have You Been Native?: Life as an Alaska Native Tour Guide. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2015).
Coleman, Annie Gilbert. Ski Style: Sport and Culture in the Rockies. (Lawrence: University Press of
Kansas, 2004). GV 854.9 S63
Dunlap, Thomas. Saving America’s Wildlife. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1988). QL84.2 D86
1988
Flader, Susan L. Thinking Like a Mountain: Aldo Leopold and the Evolution of an Ecological Attitude
Toward Deer, Wolves and Forests. (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1974). QH31 L618
F57
Jacoby, Karl. Crimes Against Nature: Squatters, Poachers, Thieves and the Hidden History of American
Conservation. (Berkeley: Univ. of Calif. Press, 2001). SB486 S65 J34
McEvoy, Arthur F. The Fisherman’s Problem: Ecology and Law in the California Fisheries, 1850-1980.
(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986). SH222 C3
Warren, Louis S. The Hunter’s Game: Poachers and Conservationists in 20th Century America. (New
Haven: Yale Univ. Press, 1997). Not in Coe
Oct. 12: Oil and Mining
Andrews, Thomas. Killing for Coal.
Brown, Ronald C. Hard-Rock Miners: The Intermountain West, 1860-1920. (College Station: Texas A&M
Press, 1979). HD8039 M61 U45
Clark, John G. Energy and the Federal Government: Fossil Fuel Policies, 1900-1946. (Urbana: Univ. of
Illinois Press, 1987). HD9502 U52 C57
Derickson, Alan. Workers’ Health, Workers’ Democracy: The Western Miners’ Struggle, 1891-1925.
(Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1988). RC965 M48 D47 Science Library
Elliott, Russell R. Nevada’s 20th Century Mining Boom: Tonopah, Goldfield, Ely. (Reno: University of
Nevada Press, 1979).
Fell, James E. Ores to Metal: The Rocky Mountain Smelting Industry. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska
Press, 1979). HD9506 R582 F44
Garceau, Dee. The Important Things in Life: Women, Work and Family in Sweetwater County, Wyoming,
1880-1929. (Lincoln: Univ. of Neb. Press, 1997). F767 S9 G36
Hansen, Gary B. The Richest Hole on Earth: A History of the Bingham Copper Mine. (Logan: Utah State
University Press, 1963).
Haycox, Stephen. Frigid Embrace: Politics, Economics and Environment in Alaska. (Corvallis: OSU
Press, 2002).
Malone, Michael P. The Battle for Butte: Mining and Politics on the Northern Frontier, 1864-1906.
(Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1981). F591 H68 1983
McGovern, George. The Great Coalfield War. (New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1972). HD5325 M63
1913 C853
Mackey, Mike. Black Gold: Patterns in the Development of Wyoming’s Oil Industry. (Powell: Western
History Publications, 1997).
Murphy, Mary. Mining Cultures: Men, Women and Leisure in Butte, 1914-1941. (Urbana: Univ. of
Illinois Press, 1997). F739 B8 M87
Nash, Gerald D. United States Oil Policy, 1890-1964. (Pittsburgh: Univ. of Pittsburgh Press, 1968).
HD9565 N28
Nordhauser, Norman. The Quest for Stability: Domestic Oil Regulation, 1917-1935. (New York: Garland,
1979). HD9566 N67
Olien, Diana Davids. Oil and Ideology: The Cultural Creation of the American Petroleum Industry.
(Chapel Hill: UNC Press, 2000). HD9565 O6473
Olien, Diana Davids, and Roger M. Olien. Oil in Texas: The Gusher Age, 1895-1945. (Austin: University
of Texas Press, 2002).
Ringholz, Raye C. Uranium Frenzy: Boom and Bust on the Colorado Plateau. (Albuquerque: UNM Press,
1989).
Scamehorn, H. Lee. Mill and Mine: The CF&I in the Twentieth Century. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska
Press, 1992). HD9519 C58 S277
Stiller, David. Wounding the West: Montana, Mining and the Environment. (Lincoln: University of
Nebraska Press, 2000). TD195 M5 S75 (Science)
Taniguchi, Nancy J. Necessary Fraud: Progressive Reform and Utah Coal. (Norman: Univ. of Oklahoma
Press, 1996). HD243 U8 T36
Trennert, Robert A. Riding the High Wire: Aerial Mine Tramways in the West. (Boulder: Univ. Press of
Colo., 2001). TN332 T74
Voynick, Stephen M. Leadville: A Miner’s Epic. (Missoula: Mountain Press, 1984). F784 L4 V69
Whiteside, James. Regulating Danger: The Struggle for Mine Safety in the Rocky Mountain Coal
Industry. (Lincoln: Univ. of Nebraska Press, 1990).
Zhu, Liping. A Chinaman’s Chance: The Chinese on the Rocky Mountain Mining Frontier. (Niwot: Colo.
Assoc. University Press, 1997). E184 C5 Z48
Oct. 19: Law
Bader, Robert Smith. The Great Kansas Bond Scandal. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1982).
HV6770 A2 K23
Bakken, Gordon. Law in the Western United States. (Norman: Univ. of Oklahoma Press, 2000). KF352
L393 2000
Butler, Anne M. Gendered Justice in the American West: Women Prisoners in Men’s Penitentiaries.
(Urbana: Univ. of Illinois Press, 1997). HV9475 W38 B87
Clark, Blue. Lone Wolf v. Hitchcock: Treaty Rights and Indian Law at the End of the 19th Century.
(Lincoln: Univ. of Nebraska Press, 1995). KF228 L66 C58
DeArment, Robert K. Assault on the Deadwood Stage: Road Agents and Shotgun Messengers. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 20–_
Ebright, Malcolm. Land Grants and Lawsuits in Northern New Mexico. (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2010).
Fisch, Louise Ann. All Rise: Reynaldo G. Garza, the First Mexican American Federal Judge. (College
Station: Texas A&M Press, 1996). KF373 G35 F57
Fox, Sarah Lisabeth. Downwind: A People’s History of the Nuclear West. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2014).
Neiwert, David A. In God’s Country: The Patriot Movement and the Pacific Northwest. (Pullman:
Washington State Univ. Press, 1999). HN79 A19 N45
Gray, Paul Bryan. Forster v. Pico: The Struggle for the Rancho Santa Margarita. (Spokane: Arthur H.
Clark Co., 1998). F868 S34 G73
Hamm, Theodore. Rebel and a Cause: Caryl Chessman and the Politics of the Death Penalty in Postwar
California, 1948-74. (Berkeley: Univ. of California Press, 2001). HV8699 U5 H363
Hewitt, James. In Cold Storage: Sex and Murder on the Plains. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2015).
Lieder, Michael and Jake Page. Wild Justice: The People of Geronimo v. The United States. (New York:
Random House, 1997). KF8208 L54
Littlefield, Daniel F. Seminole Burning: A Story of Racial Vengeance. (Jackson: Univ. Press of
Mississippi, 1996). Oklahoma. E99 S28 L573
McKanna, Clare V. Homicide, Race and Justice in the American West, 1880-1920. (Tucson: Univ. of
Arizona Press, 1997). HV6533 W46 M34
MacMillan, Donald. Smoke Wars: Anaconda Copper, Montana Air Pollution and the Court, 1890-1924. (Helena: Montana Historical Society Press, 2000).
Muller, Eric L. Free to Die for Their Country: The Story of the Japanese-American Draft Resisters in
World War II. (Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press, 2001). D810 C82 M85
Salyer, Lucy E. Laws Harsh as Tigers: Chinese Immigrants and the Shaping of Modern Immigration Law.
(Chapel Hill: UNC Press, 1995).
Sandweiss, Martha A. Passing Strange: A Gilded Age Tale of Love and Deception Across the Color Line. (New York: Penguin, 2009).
Wollenberg, Charles. All Deliberate Speed: Segregation and Exclusion in California Schools, 1855-1975.
(Berkeley: UC Press, 1975). LA243 W58
Oct. 26: Changing Demographics and Diversity
Hispanics
Acuna, Rodolfo. A Community Under Siege: A Chronicle of Chicanos East of the Los Angeles River,
1945-1975. (Los Angeles: UCLA Press, 1984). E869 E18 A28
Balderrama, Francisco E., and Raymond Rodriquez. Decade of Betrayal: Mexican Repatriation in the
1930s. (Albuquerque: UNM Press, 1995). E184 M5 B35
Buitron, Richard. The Quest for Tejano Identity in San Antonio, 1913-2000. (New York: Routledge, 2004).
Cardoso, Lawrence A. Mexican Emigration to the United States, 1897-1931: Socio-Economic Patterns.
(Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1980). JV6798 M6 C37
Deutsch, Sarah. No Separate Refuge: Culture, Class and Gender on an Anglo-Hispanic Frontier in the
American Southwest, 1880-1940. (New York: Oxford, 1987). F785 M5 D48
Donato, Ruben. Mexicans and Hispanics in Colorado Schools and Communities, 1920-1960. (Albany:
SUNY Press, 2007). LC2687.C6 D66 2007
Escobar, Edward J. Race, Police, and the Making of a Political Identity: Mexican Americans and the Los
Angeles Police Department, 1900-1945. (Berkeley: Univ. of Calif. Press, 1999). HV8148 L55
E73
Garcia, Mario T. Desert Immigrants: The Mexicans of El Paso, 1880-1920. (New Haven: Yale, 1971).
F394 E4 G36
Griswold del Castillo, Richard, ed. Chicano San Diego: Cultural Space and the Struggle for Justice.
(Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2007). F869.S22 C47 2007.
Griswold del Castillo, Richard. The Los Angeles Barrio, 1850-1890: A Social History. (Berkeley:
University of California Press, 1979). F869 L89 M445
Griswold del Castillo, Richard. Chicano San Diego: Cultural Space and the Struggle for Justice.
(Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2007). F869. S22 C47 2007
Gutierrez, David G. Walls and Mirrors: Mexican Americans, Mexican Immigrants and the Politics of
Ethnicity. (Berkeley: Univ. of California Press, 1995). E184 M5 G86
Haney-Lopez, Ian. Racism on Trial: The Chicano Fight for Justice. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press,
2003). F869.E18 H36 2003
Iber, Jorge. Hispanics in the Mormon Zion, 1912-1999. (College Station: Texas A&M Press, 2000). F835
S75 I24
Mazon, Mauricio. The Zoot-Suit Riots: The Psychology of Symbolic Annihilation. (Austin: University of
Texas Press, 1984). F869 L89 M56
Monroy, Douglas. Rebirth: Mexican Los Angeles from the Great Migration to the Great Depression.
(Berkeley: Univ. of California Press, 1999). F869 L89 M455
Navarro, Armando. The Cristal Experiment: A Chicano Struggle for Community Control. (Madison:
Univ. of Wisconsin Press, 1998). (Texas). F394 C83 N37
Oropeza, Lorena. Raza si!: guerra no!: Chicano Protest and Patriotism during the Vietnam War Era. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005). E184 M5 077
Pitti, Stephen J. The Devil in Silicon Valley: Northern California, Race and Mexican Americans.
(Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2003). F868.S25 P68 2003
Romo, Ricardo. East Los Angeles: History of a Barrio. (Austin: Univ. of Texas Press, 1983). F869 E18
R65
Ruiz, Vicki. From Out of the Shadows: Mexican Women in 20th Century America. (New York: Oxford
Univ. Press, 1988). E184 M5 R86
Sanchez, George J. Becoming Mexican American: Ethnicity, Culture and Identity in Chicano Los
Angeles, 1900-1945. (New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 1993). F869 L89 M57
African Americans, Asian-Americans, and Religious Groups
Alexander, Thomas G. Mormonism in Transition: A History of the Latter-Day Saints, 1890-1930.
(Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1986). BX8611 A465
Bauman, Robert. Race and the War on Poverty from Watts to East Los Angeles. (Norman: University
of Oklahoma Press, 2008). HC108 L55 B38
Broussard, Albert. Black San Francisco: The Struggle for Racial Equality in the West, 1900-1954.
(Lawrence: Univ. Press of Kansas, 1993). F869 S39 B424
Eick, Gretchen Cassel. Dissent in Wichita: The Civil Rights Movement in the Midwest, 1954-72. (Urbana:
University of Illinois Press, 2001). F689 W6 E75
Ellsworth, Scott. Death in a Promised Land: The Tulsa Race Riot of 1921. (Baton Rouge: LSU Press,
1982). F704 T92 E44
Goldberg, Robert. Back to the Soil: The Jewish Farmers of Clarion, Utah, and Their World. (Salt Lake
City: Univ. of Utah Press, 1986). F834 C48 G65
Hayashi, Brian Masaru. For the Sake of Our Japanese Brethren: Assimilation, Nationalism, and
Protestantism Among the Japanese of Los Angeles, 1895-1942. (1995)
Horne, Gerald. Fire This Time: The Watts Uprising and the 1960s. (Charlottesville: Univ. Press of
Virginia, 1995). F869 L89 N4
Kurashige, Scott. The Shifting Grounds of Race: Black and Japanese Americans in the Making of Multi-
ethnic Los Angeles. (Princeton University Press, 2008). F869.L89 A25345 2008
Lemke-Santangelo, Gretchen. Abiding Courage: African American Migrant Women and the East Bay
Community. (Chapel Hill: UNC Press, 1996). F868 S156 L45
Leonard, Kevin Allen. The Battle for Los Angeles: Racial Ideology and World War II. (Albuquerque:
UNM Press, 2006). F869.L89 A2535 2006
McKeown, Adam. Chinese Migrant Networks and Cultural Change: Peru, Chicago, Hawaii, 1900-1936.
(Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2001). DS732 M39
Modell, John. The Economics and Politics of Racial Accommodation: The Japanese of Los Angeles,
1900-1942. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1977). F869 L89 J35
Shah, Nayan. Contagious Divides: Epidemics and Race in San Francisco’s Chinatown. (Berkeley:
University of California Press, 2001). RA448.5 C45 S553
Stone, Ellen Hallet. A Homeland in the West: Utah Jews Remember. (Salt Lake City: Univ. of Utah Press,
2001). (oral history).
Taylor, Quintard. In Search of the Racial Frontier: African Americans in the American West, 1528-1990.
(New York: Norton, 1998). E185.925 T39
Taylor, Quintard. Forging a Black Community: Seattle’s Central District. (Seattle: Univ. of Washington
Press, 1994). F899 S49 N475
Vorspan, Max and Lloyd P. Gartner. History of the Jews of Los Angeles. (San Marino: Huntington
Library, 1970). F869 L8 V6
Yung, Judy. Unbound Feet: A Social History of Chinese Women in San Francisco. (Berkeley: Univ. of
California Press, 1995). F869 S39 C595
American Indians/Native Americans
Ebright, Malcolm, Rick Hendricks and Richard W. Hughes. Four Square Leagues: Pueblo Indian Land in New Mexico. (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2014).
Johnson, Troy R. The Occupation of Alcatraz Island: Indian Self-Determination and the Rise of Indian
Activism. (Urbana: Univ. of Illinois Press, 1996).E78 C15 J612
Kilpatrick, Jacquelyn. Celluloid Indians: Native Americans and Film. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press,1999).
LaPier, Roselyn R., and David R. M. Beck. City Indian: Native American Activism in Chicago, 1893-1934. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2014).
Lindsay, Brendan C. Murder State: California’s Native American Genocide, 1846-1873. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2014).
Parman, Donald S. Navajos and the New Deal. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1976). E99 N3 P37
Reinhardt, Akim. Ruling Pine Ridge: Oglala Lakota Politics from the IRA to Wounded Knee,
Reinhardt, Akim. ed. Welcome to the Oglala Nation: A Documentary Reader in Oglala Lakota Political History. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2015).
Schrader, Robert Fray. The Indian Arts and Crafts Board: An Aspect of the New Deal Indian Policy.
(Albuquerque: Univ. of New Mexico Press, 1983). E98 A7 S37 1983
Taylor, Graham D. The New Deal and American Indian Tribalism: The Administration of the Indian
Reorganization Act, 1934-1945. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1980). E93 T39
Watson, Blake. Buying America from the Indians: Johnson v. McIntosh and the History of Native Land Rights. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2014).
Nov. 2: Industry, Business and Labor
Bryant, Keith L. Alfalfa Bill Murray. (Norman: Univ. of Okla. Press, 1968). F700 M697
Burbank, Garin. When Farmers Voted Red: The Gospel of Socialism in the Oklahoma Countryside, 1910-
1924. (Westport: Greenwood, 1976). JK2391 S6 B87
Byrkit, James W. Forging the Copper Collar: Arizona’s Labor-Management War of 1901-1921. (Tucson:
University of Arizona Press, 1982). HD6515 M72 B563 1982
Calvert, Jerry W. The Gibraltor: Socialism and Labor in Butte, Montana, 1895-1920. (Helena: Montana
Historical Society, 1988). HX92 B95 C36
Carlson, Peter. Roughneck: The Life and Times of Big Bill Haywood. (New York: Norton, 1983). HD6509
H3 C37
Dubofsky, Melvyn. We Shall Be All: A History of the Industrial Workers of the World. (Chicago:
Quadrangle, 1969). HD8055 J5 D8
Elliott, Russell R. Radical Labor in the Nevada Mining Booms, 1900-1920. (Carson City: State
Publishing, 1961). HD5325 M6 E9
Enyeart, John P. The Quest for “Just and Pure Law’: Rocky Mountain Workers and American Social
Democracy, 1870-1924. (Palo Alto: Stanford University Press, 2009). HD8079 R63 E59
Friday, Chris. Organizing Asian American Labor: The Pacific Coast Canned-Salmon Industry, 1870- 1942. (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1994). HD6515.C27 F75 1994
Garcia, Mario T. Obreros: The Mexican Workers of El Paso, 1900-1920. (Ann Arbor: UMicro., 1975).
F394 E4 G37
Gitelman, Howard M. Legacy of the Ludlow Massacre: A Chapter in American Industrial Relations.
(Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1988). HD6490 C612 U65 1988
Gonzales, Gilbert G. Mexican Consuls and Labor Organizing: Imperial Politics in the American
Southwest. (Austin: Univ. of Texas Press, 1999). HD8081 M6 G665
Hall, Greg. Harvest Wobblies: The Industrial Workers of the World and Agricultural Laborers in the
American West, 1905-1930. (Corvallis: OSU Press, 2001). HD6515 A292 A394
Haywood, William D. The Autobiography of Big Bill Haywood.(New York: International
Publishers, 1929). Not in Coe
Jameson, Elizabeth. All That Glitters: Class, Conflict, and Community in Cripple Creek. (Urbana:
University of Illinois Press, 1998). HD8039.M732 U65 1998
Jones, Gladys Powelson. Cheyenne, Cheyenne: Our Blue-Collar Heritage. (Cheyenne: Frontier Printing,
1983). F769 C5 J66
Larrowe, Charles P. Harry Bridges: The Rise and Fall of Radical Labor in the United States. (Westport:
L. Hill, 1977). HD8073 B7 L37
Morlan, Robert L. Political Prairie Fire: The Nonpartisan League, 1915-1922. (Minneapolis: University
of Minnesota Press, 1955). HD1485 NR M6 1985
Myers, Polly Reed. Capitalist Family Values: Gender, Work and Corporate Culture at Boeing. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2015).
Nelson, Bruce. Workers on the Waterfront: Seamen, Longshoremen and Unionism in the 1930s. (Urbana:
University of Illinois Press, 1989). HD6515 S4 N45
Peck, Gunther. Reinventing Free Labor: Padrones and Immigrant Workers in the North American West,
1880-1930. (Cambridge University Presss, 2000). HD4875 N7 P43
Powell, Allen Kent. The Next Time We Strike: Labor in Utah’s Coal Fields, 1900-1933. (Logan: Utah
State, 1985). HD6515 M616 U87
Pulido, Laura. Black, Brown, Yellow, and Left: Radical Activism in Los Angeles. (Berkeley: University of
California Press, 2006). HN79.C23 R336 2006
Reid, John Phillip. Forging a Fur Empire: Expeditions in the Snake River Country, 1809-1824. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press,
Schwantes, Carlos. Radical Heritage: Labor, Socialism and Reform in Washington and British Columbia,
1885-1917. (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1979). HD8079 W3538
Sellars, Nigel Anthony. Oil, Wheat and Wobblies: The Industrial Workers of the World in Oklahoma,
1905-1930. (Norman: Univ. of Oklahoma Press, 1998). HD8055 I4 S45
Smith, Gibbs M. Joe Hill. (Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 1969). HD8073 H55 S63
Tyler, Robert L. Rebels of the Woods: The I. W. W. in the Pacific Northwest. (Eugene: University of
Oregon Books, 1967). HD8055 I5 T9
White, Richard. Transcontinental:
Woirol, Gregory R. In the Floating Army: F. C. Mills on Itinerant Life in California, 1914. (Urbana:
University of Illinois Press, 1991). HV4506 C2 W65
Nov. 9: Western Politics
Before the New Deal
Anders, Evan. Boss Rule in South Texas: The Progressive Era. (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1979).
F391 A5
Ashby, Leroy. Spearless Leader: Senator Borah and the Progressive Movement in the 1920s. (Urbana:
Univ. of Illinois Press, 1972). E748 B7 A85
Bader, Robert Smith. Prohibition in Kansas: A History. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1986).
HV5090 K2 B34
Bates, J. Leonard. The Origins of Teapot Dome: Progressives, Parties and Petroleum, 1909-1921.
(Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1963). E743 B36 1964x
Berman, David R. Reformers, Corporations, and the Electorate: An Analysis of Arizona’s Age of Reform.
(Niwot: University Press of Colorado, 1992). JK8292 .B47 1992
Brown, Norman D. Hood, Bonnet and Little Brown Jug: Texas Politics, 1921-1928. (College Station:
Texas A&M Press, 1984). F391 B847 1984
Brownlow, Kevin. The War, the West and the Wilderness. (New York: Knopf, 1979). World War I.
PN1993.5 U6 B76
Clark, Norman H. The Dry Years: Prohibition and Social Change in Washington. (Seattle: University of
Washington Press, 1965). HV5090 W2 C58
Davies, Richard O. Maverick Spirit: Building the New Nevada. (Reno: University of Nevada Press, 1999)
. F845 M39 1999
Feinman, Ronald L. Twilight of Progressivism: The Western Republican Senators and the New Deal.
(Baltimore: Johns Hopkins, 1981). H31 J6 99th series, no. 1
Franklin, Jimmie L. Born Sober: Prohibition in Oklahoma, 1907-1929. (Norman: University of Oklahoma
Press, 1971). HV5090 O5 F7
John K. Galbraith. The Great Crash, 1929. (Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, 1954, 2009).
Goldberg, Robert A. Hooded Empire: The Ku Klux Klan in Colorado. (Urbana: University of Illinois
Press, 1981). HS2330 K63 G67
Gould, Lewis L. Progressives and Prohibitionists: Texas Democrats in the Wilson Era. (Austin:
University of Texas Press,1973). JK2318 T4 1973
Gregory, James. American Exodus: The Dust Bowl Migration and Okie Culture in California. (New York:
Oxford, 1989). HB1985.C2 G74 1989
Robbins, William G. Lumberjacks and Legislators: Political Economy of the U. S. Lumber Industry,
1890-1941. (College Station: Texas A&M Press, 1982).HD 9756 .R6 1982
Scheer, Teva. Governor Lady: the Life and Times of Nellie Tayloe Ross (2005)
Soden, Dale E. The Rev. Mark Matthews: An Activist in the Progressive Era. (Seattle: University of
Washington Press, 2001). BX9225 M38 S63
Starr, Kevin. Inventing the Dream: Southern California Through the Progressive Era. (New York:
Oxford, 1985). F867 S8 1985
Starr, Kevin. Material Dreams: Southern California Through the 1920s. (New York: Oxford, 1990). F867
S82 1990
Steinbeck, John. The Harvest Gypsies: On the Road to the Grapes of Wrath. (Berkeley: Heyday Books, 1988).
Stratton, David. Tempest Over Teapot Dome: The Story of Albert B. Fall. (Norman: Univ. of Oklahoma
Press, 1998). E748 F22 1998
Van Nuys, Frank. Americanizing the West: Race, Immigrants, and Citizenship, 1890-1930. (Lawrence:
Univ. Press of Kansas, 2002). F596.2 V36
New Deal Era and Later
Blackwelder, Julia Kirk. Women of the Depression: Caste and Culture in San Antonio, 1929-1939.
(College Station: Texas A&M Press, 1984). HQ1439 S2 B42
Blumell, Bruce D. The Development of Public Assistance in the State of Washington During the Great
Depression. (New York: Garland, 1984). Not in Coe
Braeman, John, Robert H. Bremner and David Brody (eds.) The New Deal. Vol. 2: The State and Local
Levels. (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1975). Read sections on West. E806 B72 v.2
Brigham, Jay L. Empowering the West: Electrical Politics Before FDR. (Lawrence: University Press of
Kansas, 1998). HD 9688 U53 W33
Burke, Robert E. Olson’s New Deal for California. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1953). F866
O5 B8
Cole, Olen. The African-American Experience in the Civilian Conservation Corps. (Gainesville: Univ. of
Florida Press, 1999). (California) S932 C3 C65
Douglas, William O. Go East, Young Man. (New York: Random House, 1974). KF8745 D6 A3
Lowitt, Richard. The New Deal in the West. (Bloomington: Indiana Univ. Press, 1984). HC107 A17 L68
Malone, Michael P. C. Ben Ross and the New Deal in Idaho. (Seattle: University of Washington Press,
1970). F746 M3
Mitchell, Greg. The Campaign of the Century: Upton Sinclair’s Race for Governor of California and the
Birth of Media Politics. (New York: Random House, 1992). F866 M65 1992
Mullins, William H. The Depression and the Urban West Coast, 1929-1933L Los Angeles, San Francisco,
Seattle and Portland. (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1991). HB3717 1929 .M85 1991
Roberts, Phil. A Penny for the Governor, A Dollar for Uncle Sam: Income Taxation in Washington State.
(Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2002). KFW 475 R63
Schruben, Francis W. Kansas in Turmoil, 1930-1936. (Columbia: Univ. of Missouri Press, 1969). F686 S3
Slutsky, Beth. Gendering Radicalism: Women and Communism in 20th Century California. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2015).
Weber, Devra. Dark Sweat, White Gold: California Farm Workers, Cotton and the New Deal. (Berkeley:
1994). HD 8039 C662 U68
Whisenhunt, Donald W. The Depression in Texas: The Hoover Years. (New York: Garland, 1983).
HC107 T4 W5 1983
Wickens, James F. Colorado in the Great Depression. (New York: Garland, 1979). HC107 C7 W5
Worster, Donald. Dust Bowl: The Southern Plains in the 1930s. (New York: Oxford U. Press, 1979). F786
W87
Nov. 16: World War II and the Rise of the Urban West
World War II
Anderson, Karen. Wartime Women: Sex Roles, Family Relations and the Status of Women during World
War II. (Westport:Greenwood, 1981). HQ1420 A65
Bailey, Beth, and David Farber. The First Strange Place: The Alchemy of Race and Sex in World War II
Hawaii. (New York: Free Press, 1992). D744.7 H3 B35
Daniels, Roger. The Decision to Relocate the Japanese-Americans. (Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1975).
D769.8 A6 D36
Driscoll, Barbara A. The Tracks North: The Railroad Bracero Program of World War II. (Austin:
University of Texas Press, 1999). HD8039 R12 U6244
Fox, Stephen. The Unknown Internment: An Oral History of the Relocation of Italian Americans During
World War II. (Boston: Twayne, 1990). D769.8.A6 F66 1990
Gamboa, Erasmo. Mexican Labor and World War II: Braceros in the Pacific Northwest, 1942-1947.
(Austin: University of Texas Press, 1991). HD1527 A19 G36
Hevly, Bruce and John Findlay, eds. Atomic West. (Seattle: Univ. of Washington Press, 1998). QC773.3
U5 A87
Houston, Jeane Wakat. Farewell to Manzanar: A True Story of Japanese-American Experience During
and After WWII Internment. (Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, 1973). E184 J3 H63
Hunner, Jon. Inventing Los Alamos: The Growth of an Atomic Community. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2004). F804 L6 H86
Hurt, R. Douglas. Great Plains During World War II. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2008).
F595 H95 2008
Irons, Peter. Justice at War: The Story of the Japanese American Internment Cases. (New York: Oxford,
1983). KF7224.5 I76
Johnson, Marilynn S. The Second Gold Rush: Oakland and the East Bay in World War II. (Berkeley:
University of California Press, 1993). F869 O2 J64
Kashima, Tetsuden. Judgment without Trial: Japanese American Imprisonment during World War II.
(Seattle University of Washington Press, 2003). Not in Coe
Kesselman, Amy. Fleeting Opportunities: Women Shipyard Workers in Portland and Vancouver During
World War II and Reconversion. (Ithaca: SUNY Press, 1990). HD6073 S52 U64 1990
Kunetka, James W. City of Fire: Los Alamos and the Atomic Age,1943-45. (Albuquerque: UNM Press,
1979). Not in Coe
Larson, T. A. Wyoming’s War Years, 1941-1945. (Palo Alto: Stanford Univ. Press, 1954). D769.85 W8 L8
Lotchin, Roger. The Bad City in the Good War: San Francisco, Los Angeles, Oakland and San Diego.
(Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2003). D769.85 C2 L68
Lotchin, Roger, (ed.) The Way We Really Were: The Golden State in the Second Great War. (Urbana:
Univ. of Illinois Press, 2000). Essays. D769.85 C2 W39
Nash, Gerald D. The American West Transformed: The Impact of the Second World War. (Bloomington:
Univ. of Indiana Press, 1985). HC107 A17 N37
Nash, Gerald D. World War II in the West: Reshaping the Economy. (Lincoln: Univ. of Nebraska Press,
1990). HC107 A17 N373
Sanger, S. L. Working on the Bomb: An Oral History of WWII Hanford. (Portland: Portland State, 1995).
QC 773.3 U5 S265
Simpson, Caroline Chung. An Absent Presence: Japanese Americans in Postwar American Culture, 1945-
60. (Durham: Duke Univ. Press, 2001). E184 J3 S55 2001
Townsend, Kenneth W. World War II and the American Indian. (Albuquerque: UNM Press, 2000).
Electronic online through Coe.
Twitchell, Heath. Northwest Epic: The Building of the Alaska Highway. (New York: St. Martin’s, 1992).
F1060.92 T85 1992
The Urban West
Abbott, Carl. Portland: Planning, Politics and Growth in a 20th Century City. (Lincoln: University of
Nebraska Press, 1983). HT168 P62 A25
Abbott, Carl. Greater Portland: Urban Life and Landscapes in the Pacific Northwest. (Philadelphia:
Univ. of Penn. Press, 2001). F884 P85 A23
Abbott, Carl. The Metropolitan Frontier: Cities in the Modern American West. (Tucson: University of
Arizona Press, 1993). F595 .A24 1993
Barth, Gunther. Instant Cities: Urbanization and the Rise of San Francisco and Denver. (New York,
1975). HT123.5 W4 B37
Bernard, Richard M. and Bradley R. Rice. Sunbelt Cities: Politics and Growth Since World War II.
(Austin: University of Texas Press, 1983). HT123.5 A163 S93 1983
Bottles, Scott L. Los Angeles and the Automobile: The Making of the Modern City. (Berkeley: University
of California Press, 1987). HE5634 L7 B68
Brechin, Gray. Imperial San Francisco: Urban Power, Earthly Ruin. (Berkeley: University of California
Press, 1999).F869.S353 A225 1999
Brosnan, Kathleen. Uniting Mountain and Plain: Cities, Law, and Environmental Change along the Front
Range. (Albuquerque: UNM Press, 2002). F784 D457 B76
Davis, Mike. City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles. (NY: Verso, 1990). HN80 L7 D38
Deverell, William, and Greg Hise. Land of Sunshine: An Environmental History of Metropolitan Los
Angeles. (Pittsburgh University Press, 2005). GF504.C2 L36 2005
Findlay, John M. Magic Lands: Western Cityscapes and American Culture after 1940. (Berkeley: Univ. of
California Press, 1992). HT384 U52 A174
Fixico, Donald. Urban Indian Experience in America. (Albuquerque: UNM Press, 2000). E98 U72 F57
Hise, Greg. Magnetic Los Angeles: Planning the 20th Century Metropolis. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins,
1997) HT 394 L67 H57
Issel, William, and Robert W. Cherny. San Francisco, 1865-1932: Politics, Power and Urban
Development. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1986). F869 S357 I86
Klingle, Matthew. Emerald City: An Environmental History of Seattle. (New Haven: Yale University Press,
2007). GF504 W2 K55
Kropp, Phoebe S. California Vieja: Culture and Memory in a Modern American Place. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2006). F862 K76 2006
Luckingham, Bradford. Phoenix: A History of a Southwestern Metropolis. (Tucson: University of Arizona
Press, 1989). F819 P57 L83
Luckingham, Bradford. The Urban Southwest: A Profile History of Albuquerque, El Paso, Phoenix and
Tucson. (El Paso: Texas: Western Press, 1982). HT123.5 A165 L82 1982
MacDonald, Norbert. Distant Neighbors: A Comparative History of Seattle and Vancouver. (Lincoln:
University of Nebraska Press, 1987). F899 S457 M33 1987
Moehring, Eugene P. Resort City in the Sunbelt: Las Vegas, 1930-1970. (Reno: University of Nevada
Press, 1989). F849.L35 M64 1989
Morrissey, Katherine G. Mental Territories: Mapping the Inland Empire. (Ithaca: Cornell Univ. Press,
1997). F852 M67 1997
Nicolaides, Becky M. My Blue Heaven: Life and Politics in the Working Class Suburbs of Los Angeles,
1920-1965. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2002). Not in Coe
Raftery, Judith Rosenberg. Land of Fair Promise: Politics and Reform in Los Angeles Schools, 1855-
1941. (Stanford University Press, 1992). LA 245 L6 R34
Rhomberg, Chris. No There There: Race, Class and Political Community in Oakland. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2004).F869.O2 R48 2004
Rothman, Hal K. and Mike Davis (eds.) The Grit Beneath the Glitter: Tales from the Real Las Vegas.
(Berkeley: Univ. of Calif. Press, 2002). 21 essays. F849 L35 G75
Sale, Roger. Seattle: Past to Present. (Seattle: Univ. of Washington Press, 1976). F899 S457 S24
Shelton, Beth Anne. Houston: Growth and Decline in a Sunbelt Boomtown. (Philadelphia: Temple
University Press, 1989). HN80 H8 H7
Shortridge, James R. Cities on the Plains: The Evolution of Urban Kansas. (Lawrence: University Press of
Kansas, 2004). HT123.5.K2 S56 2004
Sonnichsen, C. L. Tucson: The Life and Times of an American City. (Norman: University of Oklahoma
Press, 1982). F819 T957 S66
Timmons, W. H. El Paso: A Borderlands History. (El Paso: Texas Western Press, 1990). F394 E4 T566
Trounstine, Philip J. and Terry Christensen. Movers and Shakers: The Study of Community Power. (New
York: St. Martins, 1982). HN90 P6 T76 (San Jose)
White, Richard, and John M. Findlay, eds. Power and Place in the North American West. (Seattle:
University of Washington Press, 1999). F591 P89
Wild, Mark. Street Meeting: Multiethnic Neighborhoods in Early 20th Century Los Angeles. (Berkeley:
University of California Press, 2005). Available online through Coe
Nov. 23: Western Art and Culture
Avila, Eric. Popular Culture in the Age of White Flight: Fear and Fantasy in Suburban Los Angeles.
(Berkeley: University of California Press, 2004). F869.L85 A95 20
Blackstone, Sarah J. Buckskins, Bullets and Business: A History of Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show. (New
York: Greenwood, 1986). GV1821 B8 B57
Bryant, Keith L., Jr. Culture in the American Southwest: The Earth, the Sky, the People. (College Station:
Texas A&M Univ. Press, 2001). E78 S7 B78
Bryman, Alan. Disney and His Worlds. (London: Routledge, 1995). Not in Coe
Dippie, Brian. Catlin and His Contemporaries: The Politics of Patronage. (Lincoln: Univ. of Nebraska
Press, 1990). N8835 D57
Douglas, Patrick. East Coast, West Coast. (New York: Donald I. Fine, Inc., 1989). E169 D68 1989
Drescher, Tim. San Francisco Murals: Community Creates Its Muse, 1914-1990. (St. Paul: Pogo Press,
1991). ND2638 S4 D747
Duncan, Kate C. 1001 Curious Things: Ye Olde Curiosity Shop and Native American Art. (Seattle:
University of Washington Press, 2000). GN36 U62 S439 A Seattle waterfront “institution.”
Findlay, John M. People of Chance: Gambling in American Society from Jamestown to Las Vegas. (New
York: Oxford, 1986). HV6715 F56
Gioia, Ted. West Coast Jazz: Modern Jazz in California, 1945-1960. (New York: Oxford, 1992).
ML3508.7 C28 G5
Gordon, Linda. The Great Arizona Orphan Abduction. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1999).
F819 C55 G67
Horgan, Paul. Of America East and West. (New York: Farrar, Strauss, Giroux, 1935). PS3515 O6583 A6
Horne, Gerald. Class Struggle in Hollywood, 1930-1950: Moguls, Mobsters, Stars, Reds, and TradeUnions.
(Austin: University of Texas Press, 2001). PN1993.5.U65 H67 2001
Kollin, Susan. Captivating Westerns: The Middle East in the American West. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2015).
Moses, L. G. Wild West Shows and the Images of American Indians, 1883-1933. (Albuquerque: UNM
Press, 1996). GV1833 M67
Moore, Sarah J. Empire on Display: San Francisco’s Panama-Pacific Exposition of 1915. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2014).
Murray, Robin L., and Joseph K. Heumann. Gunflight at the Eco-Corral: Western Culture and the Environment. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2014).
Pastras, Phil. Dead Man Blues: Jelly Roll Morton Way Out West. (Berkeley: Univ. of California Press,
2001). ML410 M82 P37
Stegner, Wallace. Wolf Willow: A History, a Story and a Memory of the Last Plains Frontier. (New York:
Viking, 1962). F1 O71 S7
Taggart, Sherry Clayton. Paintbrushes and Pistols: How the Taos Artists Sold the West. (Santa Fe: J. Muir
Books, 1990). N6512.5 T34 T34
Udall, Sharyn Rohlfsen. Modernist Painting in New Mexico, 1913-1935. (Albuquerque: UNM Press,
1984). ND230 N38 U3
Warren, Louis S. Buffalo Bill’s America: William Cody and the Wild West Show. (New York: Knopf, 2005). F594.B94 W37 2005
Western Writers:
Acosta, Oscar Zeta. The Revolt of the Cockroach People. (San Francisco: Straight Arrow, 1973).PS3551
C6 R4x
Cline, Lynn. Literary Pilgrims: The Santa Fe and Taos Writers’ Colonies, 1917-1950. (Albuquerque:
UNM Press, 2007). PS144.N35 C65 2007
Kowalewski, Michael. Reading the West. (New York: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1996). PS271 R43 1996
L’Amour, Louis. Education of a Wandering Man. (New York: Bantam, 1989). PS3523 Z446 Z464
Meltzer, David. San Francisco Beat: Talking with the Poets. (San Francisco: City Lights, 2001).
PS285.S3 M45 2001
Peters, Nancy J. and Lawrence Ferlinghetti. Literary San Francisco. (San Francisco: Harper and Row,
1980). PS285 S3 P4
Swift, John N., and Joseph R. Urgo. Willa Cather and the American Southwest. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2002).
Weigle, Marta. Santa Fe and Taos: The Writer’s Era, 1916-1941. (Sunstone Press, 2008). PS 283 .N6 W4 1982
Note: The compilation titled A Literary History of the American West, published by TCU Press in 1987, contains a number of essays on Western writers. Even though it is extremely lengthy and, with each passing year it becomes more dated, it is essential reading for specialists in the history and literature of the American West.
The Mythical West and Western Historiography
Athearn, Robert G. The Mythic West in 20th Century America. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas,
1986). F595 A85
Bannon, John Francis. Herbert Eugene Bolton: The Historian and the Man, 1870-1953. (Tucson: Univ. of
Arizona Press, 1978). E175 B65 B36
Bogue, Allan G. Frederick Jackson Turner: Strange Roads Going Down. (Norman: Univ. of Oklahoma
Press, 1998). E175.5 T83 B64\
Cronon, William, George Miles and Jay Gitlin (eds.) Under an Open Sky: Rethinking America’s Western
Past. (New York: Norton, 1992). F591 U53
Etulain, Richard W. New Mexican Lives: Profiles and Historical Stories. (Albuquerque: UNM Press,
2002). F796.5 N49
Frykman, George A. Seattle’s Historian and Promoter: The Life of Edmond Stephen Meany. (Pullman:
WSU Press, 1998. F899 S453 M434
Gressley, Gene. The Twentieth-Century American West: A Potpourri. (Columbia: University of Missouri
Press, 1977). F595 G828
Leckie, Shirley A. Angie Debo: A Pioneering Historian. (Norman, Univ. of Oklahoma Press, 2000).
E175.5 D43 L43
Murdoch, David H. The American West: The Invention of a Myth. (Reno: Univ. of Nevada Press, 2001).
F595 M94
Nash, Gerald N. (ed.) Researching Western History: Topics in the 20th Century. (Albuquerque: UNM
Press, 1997). F595 R4
Robbins, William G. (ed.) The Great Northwest: The Search for Regional Identity. (Corvallis: OSU Press,
2001).
Smith, Henry Nash. Virgin Land: The American West as Symbol and Myth. (New York: Vintage, 1957).
Walton, John. Storied Land: Community and Memory in Monterrey. (Berkeley: Univ. of Calif. Press,
2001). F869 M7 W35
Worster, Donald. Under Western Skies: Nature and History in the American West. (New York: Oxford,
1992). F591 W875 1992
Oct. 3: Collective Biography
Each student will be assigned a collective biography to examine and assess. (There is no expectation that the student will read each entry in the work). Nonetheless, in a brief review, students will comment on the methods, approaches and reliability, assess the sources and means by which entries were included, and analyze the broader context inherent in the book .
Collective Biographies
Cora Beach, Women of Wyoming (1927)
Mabel Brown, First Ladies of Wyoming (1990)
Elnora Frye, Atlas of Outlaws at the Wyoming Territorial Penitentiary
LeRoy Hafen, Mountain Men and Fur Traders of the Far West.
Jean Mead, Wyoming in Profile (1982)
Robert M. Kvasnicka and Viola, The Commissioners of Indian Affairs, 1824-1977
Progressive Men of the State of Wyoming (1903)
Victoria Murphy, Wyoming: A 20th Century History (1999)
Charles Welch, History of the Big Horn Basin (1940)
L. Milton Woods, Wyoming Biographies (1991)
Wyoming Press Association, Wyoming Newspapers: A Centennial History (1990)
Wyoming State Archives, Wyoming Bluebook (1943, 1977, 1991, 2007)
Oct. 10: Individual Biography
This is not an exclusive list, but possible works include:
Beebe, Finn Burnett, Frontiersman (1937)
Brown, Inga and Harry (1995)
Carroll, John B. Kendrick, Western Senator (1977)
David, Malcolm Campbell, Sheriff (1932)
Davis, Sadie and Charlie (1989)
DeArment, Alias Frank Canton
Ecelbarger, Frederick W. Lander: The Great Natural American Soldier (2000)
Gould, Willis Van Devanter in Wyoming Politics (1986)
Hufsmith, Wyoming Lynching of Cattle Kate (1993)
Lockhart, The Lady Doc (fiction) (1910)
Mackey, Inventing History in the American West (2005)
Nichols, Dick: The Man Who is President (2004)
Oglesby, Manuel Lisa and the Opening of the Frontier (1984)
Robinson, General Crook and the Western Frontier (2002)
Spring, Caspar Collins (1927)
Vanderpoel, Stan Hathaway, A Biography (2003)
Wakefield, Milward Simpson: The Fiery Petrel (2005)
Waller, Thurman Arnold: A Biography (2005)
Williams, Aven Nelson of Wyoming (1984)
Woods, John Clay, Jr.: Commission Man, Rancher (2001)
Woods, Moreton Frewen’s Western Adventures (1986)
Oct. 17: Autobiography/Memoir
Abbott, We Pointed Them North (1939)
Arnold, Fair Fights and Foul (1951)
Beck, The Damned Elk Et My Broom (1976)
Brooks, Memoirs (1939)
Canton, Frontier Trails (1930)
Carrington, Frances, My Army Life and the Fort Phil Kearny Massacre (1910)
Carrington, Margaret, Ab-sa-ra-ka, Home of the Crows (1868)
Chatterton, Memoirs (1948)
Clay, My Life on the Range (1924)
Cody, Autobiography of Buffalo Bill (1920)
Elizabeth Custer, Boots and Saddles, or Life in Dakota with General Custer (1885)
DeSmet, Life, Letters and Travels in North America Among the Indians, 1821-1873 (1905)
Dodge, How We Built the Union Pacific Railway (1910)
Gillette, The Iron Trail (1925)
Guernsey, Wyoming Cowboy Days (1936)
Horn, Life of Tom Horn, Government Scout and Interpreter: A Vindication, written by Himself (1904)
Jackson, Time Exposure (1940)
Jones, Buffalo Jones’ Adventures on the Plains (1970) SK 297 J652
Kuykendall, Frontier Days: A True Narrative of Striking Events on the Western Frontier (1917)
LaFors, Wyoming Peace Officer (1953)
Laurence, Daughter of the Regiment: Memoirs of a Childhood in the Frontier Army, 1878-1898.
Murie, Wapiti Wilderness (1985)
Olson, Ranch on the Laramie (1973)
Ostrander, After 60 Years (1925)
Rollinson, Hoofprints of a Cowboy (1941)
Rose, Advocates and Adversaries (1977)
Spence, Making of a Country Lawyer (1996)
Talbot, My People of the Plains (1906)
Voorhees, Personal Recollections of Pioneer Life (1920)
1st review essay questions assigned tonight.
Oct. 31: Writing about Diversity
Question:
You will be assigned one ethnic group in a state/region of the West. Prepare a brief essay in which you discuss some of the major scholarship done in at least the past ten years on the particular group, the major issues addressed, and the methodology employed. Give a personal assessment of both the quality and quantity of recent scholarship (including journal articles as well as books and monographs).
Nov. 7: Writing about Politics and Law. Our special guest tonight will be Dr. Robert Bonner, author of the recent book, William F. Cody’s Wyoming Empire: The Buffalo Bill Nobody Knows. Prof. Bonner earned his PhD in European history, but he has become well known for his work in the history of his native state of Wyoming. He will talk with us about his particular work in biography and he will share his thoughts about the writing of history and biography generally.
Individual Reading:
Assigned chapters in Richard Lowitt, Politics in the Postwar American West (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1995). You will be assigned a Western state from the Lowitt volume to read and analyze.
Review essay due tonight.
Nov. 14: Writing about the Land: Railroads, Farmers, Ranchers, Miners
Much of today’s writing on these issues also includes attention toward diverse populations in the West. We will consider recent work incorporating these ideas.
Common Reading:
1. Elliott Robert Barkan, “Introduction and Prelude,” pp. 1-34, in From All Points: America’s Immigrant West,
1870s-1952. (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2007).
2. David G. Gutierrez, “Significant to Whom?: Mexican Americans and the History of the American West,” Western Historical Quarterly 24 (November 1993), 519-539.
3. Quintard Taylor, “Blacks and Asians in a White City: Japanese Americans and African Americans in Seattle, 1890-1940,”Western Historical Quarterly 22 (November 1991), 401-430
4. David J. Weber, “Scarce More Than Apes: Historical Roots of Anglo American Stereotypes of Mexicans in the Border Region,” inNew Spain’s Far Northern Frontier: Essays on Spain in the American West, 1540-1821 (Albuquerque: UNM Press, 1981), 180-197 (295-304).
5. John H. Wunder, “What’s Old about the New Western History: Race and Gender, Part 1,” Pacific Northwest Quarterly 85 (April 1994), 50-58.
Nov. 21: No class. Thanksgiving Vacation.
Nov. 28: 19th Century Western Issues
Common Readings
1. William G. Robbins, “In Pursuit of Historical Explanation: Capitalism as a Conceptual Tool for Knowing the American West,”Western Historical Quarterly 30 (Autumn 1999), 277-295.
2. Robert G. Athearn, “Colonialism: The Enduring Dilemma,” in The Mythic West in 20th Century America (Lawrence: Univ. Press of Kansas, 1986), 108-130.
3. “How the West Got Wild: American Media and Frontier Violence—A Round Table,” Western Historical Quarterly 31 (Autumn 2000), 277-295.
4. David L. McFadden, “Legal Research for Historians,” Western Legal History 10 (1997), 3-30.
5. John H. Wunder, “What’s Old about the New Western History: Law, Part III,” Western Legal History 10 (1997), 85-116.
6. Donald J. Pisani, “Enterprise and Equity: A Critique of Western Water Law in the 19th Century,” Western Historical Quarterly 18 (1987), 15-38.
Readings Relevant to 19th Century WyomingIssues:
Brisbin, Beef Bonanza (1880)
Davis, A Vast Amount of Trouble
Frink, Cow Country Cavalcade (1954)
Gressley, Bankers and Cattlemen.
Jones, Guarding the Overland Trails: The 11th Ohio Cavalry in the Civil War.
Mercer, Banditti of the Plains (1894)
Smith, War on Powder River (1966)
Spring, 70 Years: A Panoramic History of the WSGA (1943)
Dec. 3: 20th Century Western Issues.
Common Reading:
1. Sam Western, Pushed Off the Mountain, Sold Down the River: Wyoming’s Search for Its Soul. (Moose: Homestead Publishing, 2003).
2. Howard R. Lamar, “Westering in the 21st Century: Speculations on the Future of the Western Past,” in Cronon, Miles, Gitlin,Under an Open Sky: Rethinking America’s Western Past (New York: W. W. Norton, 1992), 257-274.
In 1968 Herman Kahn predicted that within 25 years, three of the major factors in public debate in the West would be “excessive tourism,” air and water pollution, and radioactive debris. Comment.
Readings Relevant to 20th Century Wyoming Issues::
Barkan, From All Points: America’s Immigrant West
Brumberg, Kansas Charley
Davis, Goodbye, Judge Lynch
Garceau, The Important Things in Life
Larson, Wyoming’s War Years
Nicholas, Becoming Western
Rea, Bone Wars
Roberts, Prohibition in Wyoming
Spence, Gunning for Justice
Stratton, Tempest Over Teapot Dome
Van Nuys, Americanizing the West
Elmer Rusco, A Fateful Time: The Background and Legislative History of the Indian Reorganization Act. (2000, originally published in 1979).