History of the 20th Century American West (HIST 4540/5540)
Phil Roberts 60 History Bldg.,
Office: 356 History, 766-5101 or 5311 Wed., 7-9:30 p.m.
Home: 745-8205 (Don't call after 11 p.m., or before 6 a.m., as you may awaken my cats).
E-mail: philr@uwyo.edu
Course Objective: This course will explore the major issues involving the people, politics, economy, environment and culture in the 20th century American West, through reading, writing reviews, and discussing the main issues in class..
Course Requirements: The essential requirement for this course is diligent reading and thinking about Western issues and their history. Because the history of the West is ever-changing and contemporary issues are based on earlier events, students are expected to read about Western issues regularly as articles about such issues appear in the national and regional press. Also required is an understanding of regional geography, either through map study or by other means. The course grade will be based primarily on the reviews of relevant books and articles, a final exam (or, for graduate students, an optional historiographic essay) as well as oral participation and attendance.
Readings: All students are responsible for the common readings. Common readings will be assigned for most weeks. (Most are listed on the attached syllabus; a few will be announced later). Each week, each student will read ONE of the assigned common readings, the specific assignment to be made by the professor. Most articles will be available on reserve. Students must be prepared to discuss the specific assigned article. Not reading the assigned article will result in points deducted for participation. Relentless attendance is expected as well as thoughtful, informed discussion of assigned readings. Courtesy is essential in a reading course such as this one, while we explore the extensive historical writing on the American West in the 20th century. Consequently, rude behavior toward other members of the class will not be tolerated.
Undergraduate requirement: Analytical reviews written on any six books read for the class. Only one book may come from any single category.
Graduate student requirement: Analytical reviews written on any nine books read for the class. Only one book may come from any category.
Grading: Undergraduates: Analytical reviews, 10% each (total of 60%); participation in discussions on
common readings/attendance (15%); final exam, (25%).
Graduate students: Analytical reviews, (nine reviews for total weight of 60%); participation in discussions
on common readings/attendance (15%); final exam/historiographic essay, (25%).
Grade scale: A= 90-100%; B=80-89%; C=70-79%; D=60-69%; F=59% and below
Outline of Topics, Meetings and Assignments
*Assignment is due on the listed date and students need to be prepared to recite on the listed date.
Sept. 3: Introduction
Introductions; distribution of syllabi; informal remarks about class expectations; comments on place—where is the American West?
Sept. 10: Western Art and Culture
Does the American West have a different “culture” from the rest of America? If so, what distinguishes it from the “culture” of the rest of America?
Arts, Music, Entertainment
Anderson, Nancy. Thomas Moran. (New Haven: Yale Univ. Press, 1997). N6797 M576 A4
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
Davies, Richard O. Maverick Spirit: Building the New Nevada. (Reno: University of Nevada Press, 1999).
Dippie, Brian. Catlin and His Contemporaries: The Politics of Patronage. (Lincoln: Univ. of Nebraska
Press, 1990). N8835 D57 (Catlin lived in the 19th century, but thesis is relevant to later periods)
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
Gibson, Arrell Morgan. The Santa Fe and Taos Colonies, Age of the Muses, 1900-1942.
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
Moses, L. G. Wild West Shows and the Images of American Indians, 1883-1933. (Albuquerque: UNM
Press, 1996). GV1833 M67
Pastras, Phil. Dead Man Blues: Jelly Roll Morton Way Out West. (Berkeley: Univ. of California Press,
2001). ML410 M82 P37
Querry, Ronald B. (ed.) Growing Old at Willie Nelson's Picnic and Other Sketches of Life in the
Southwest. (College Station: Texas A&M Press, 1983). F787 G76 1983
Shortridge, James R. Our Town on the Plains: J. J. Pennell’s Photographs of Junction City, Kansas,
1893-1922. (Lawrence: Univ. Press of Kansas, 2000).
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
Wilson, Chris. The Myth of Santa Fe: Creating a Modern Regional Tradition. (Albuquerque: UNM Press,
1997).
Western Writers:
Acosta, Oscar Zeta. The Revolt of the Cockroach People. (San Francisco: Straight Arrow, 1973).PS3551
C6 R4x
Didion, Joan. Slouching Towards Bethlehem. (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1961). PS3554 I33 S55
Haslam, Gerald. Western Writing. (Albuquerque: UNM Press, 1974). PS271 H3
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. The San Francisco Poets. (New York: Ballantine, 1971).
Peters, Nancy J. and Lawrence Ferlinghetti. Literary San Francisco. (San Francisco: Harper and Row,
1980). PS285 S3 P4
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.
Sept. 17: The Mythical West and Western Historiography
Note: It is essential for any specialist in the history of the American West to be well acquainted with Frederick Jackson Turner
and the on-going debates over his work as well as a broad familiarity with the concepts espoused by the “New Western historians.”
(All) Frederick Jackson Turner, "The Significance of the Frontier in American History," in Proceedings of
the 41st Annual Meeting of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin (Madison, 1894), 79-112,
reprinted in Milner, Major Problems in the History of the American West (Lexington, Mass.:
Heath, 1989), 2-21.
1. Michael E. McGerr, "Is There a 20th Century West?" in Cronon, Miles, Gitlin, Under an Open Sky:
Rethinking America's Western Past (New York: W. W. Norton, 1992) 239-256.
2. Gerald D. Nash, “The Global Context of the New Western Historian,” in Gene M. Gressley, ed., Old
West/New West. (Worland: High Plains, 1994), 149-162.
3. William Cronon, “Revisiting the Vanishing Frontier: The Legacy of Frederick Jackson Turner,”
Western Historical Quarterly 18 (April 1987), 157-176.
4. Richard W. Etulain, "The Rise of Western Historiography," in Etulain, Writing Western History:
Essays on Major Western Historians. (Reno: Univ. of Nevada Press, 2002), 1-16..
5. Elliott Robert Barkan, “Turning Turner on His Head?: The Significance of Immigration in 20th Century
American Western History,” New Mexico Historical Review 27 (Winter 2002), 57-88.
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
Prown, Jules David, et al. Discovered Lands, Invented Pasts: Transforming Visions of the American West.
(New Haven: Yale University Press, 1992). (exhibit catalog) N8214.5 U6 D57
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
White, Richard, and John M. Findlay, eds. Power and Place in the North American West. (Seattle:
University of Washington Press, 1999). F591 P89
Worster, Donald. Under Western Skies: Nature and History in the American West. (New York: Oxford,
1992). F591 W875 1992
Wrobel, David M. Promised Lands: Promotion, Memory and the Creation of the American West.
(Lawrence: Univ. Press of Kansas, 2002).
Youngs, J. William T. The Fair and the Falls: Spokane’s Expo ’74, Transforming an American
Environment. (Cheney: EWU Press, 1996).
Sept. 24: The Western Outdoors and Recreation
1. Arthur R. Gomez, "Will the Circle Be Unbroken ?: Tourism and the National Park System in the 21st Century," in
Richard W. Etulain and Ferenc M. Szasz, The American West in 2000: Essays in Honor of Gerald D. Nash.
(Albuquerque: UNM Press, 2003), 35-51.
2. Samuel G. Regalado, "Play Ball!: Baseball and Seattle's Japanese American Courier League, 1928-
1941," Pacific Northwest Quarterly 87 (Winter 1998/6), 29-37.
3. Mark Harvey, "First Ascent of the Grand Teton: The Great Controversy," Annals of Wyoming 71
(Summer 1999), 24-34.
4. Michael J. Yochin, "Snowplanes, Snowcoaches and Snowmobiles: The Decision to Allow Snowmobiles
into Yellowstone National Park," Annals of Wyoming 70 (Summer 1998), 6-23.
5. Rick Ewig, "Give Them What They Want: The Selling of Wyoming's Image Between the Wars," in
Roberts, ed., Readings in Wyoming History (Laramie: Skyline West, 2000), 45-60.
Sports
Allen, Michael. Rodeo Cowboys in the North American Imagination. (Reno: Univ. of Nevada Press,
1998). GV1834 A55
Dunlap, Thomas. Saving America's Wildlife. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1988). QL84.2 D86
1988 Science
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 (Science)
McEvoy, Arthur F. The Fisherman's Problem: Ecology and Law in the California Fisheries, 1850-1980.
(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986). SH222 C3
Taylor, Joseph E. III. Making Salmon: An Environmental History of the Northwest Fisheries Crisis.
(Seattle: Univ. of Washington Press, 1999).
Warren, Louis S. The Hunter’s Game: Poachers and Conservationists in 20th Century America. (New
Haven: Yale Univ. Press, 1997).
National Parks and Tourism
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
Chase, Alston. Playing God in Yellowstone: The Destruction of America's First National Park. (San
Diego: Harcourt Brace, 1987). QH76.5 Y45 C47
Hise, Greg and William Deverell. Eden by Design: The 1930 Olmstad-Bartholomew Plan for the Los
Angeles Region. (Berkeley: Univ. of Calif. Press, 2000).
Kaufman, Polly Welts. National Parks and the Women’s Voice: A History. (Albuquerque: UNM Press,
1996). SB481.5 K38
Meyerson, Harvey. Nature's Army: When Soldiers Fought for Yosemite. (Lawrence: Univ. Press of
Kansas, 2001)
Peacock, Doug. Grizzly Years: In Search of the American Wilderness. (New York: Henry Holt, 1990).
QL737 C27 P366 Science
Pomeroy, Earl. In Search of the Golden West: The Tourist in Western America. (New York: Knopf, 1957).
F595 P78
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
Sellars, Richard West. Preserving Nature in the National Parks: A History. (New Haven: Yale Univ.
Press, 1997).
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
Wrobel, David, and Patrick T. Long (eds.) Seeing and Being Seen: Tourism in the American West.
(Lawrence: Univ. Press of Kansas, 2001).
Oct. 1: Western Labor/Populism/Radicalism
1. Nicholas G. Malavis, "Sword or Constitution?: Martial Law in the Oil Patch," Western Legal History 8
(Winter/Spring 1995), 61-90.
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. Phil Mellinger, “How the IWW Lost Its Western Heartland: Western Labor History Revisited,”
Western Historical Quarterly 27 (Autumn 1996), 303-324.
4. Bradley J. Belzer, “Expanding Creative Destruction: Entrepreneurship in the American Wests,”
Western Historical Quarterly 30 (Spring 1999), 45-63.
5. James Gregory, "Chapter 1: Out of the Heartland," in American Exodus: The Dust Bowl Migration
and Okie Culture in California. (New York: Oxford, 1989), 3-35.
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
Garcia, Mario T. Obreros: The Mexican Workers of El Paso, 1900-1920. (Ann Arbor: UMicro., 1975).
F394 E4 G37
Gonzales, Gilbert G. Mexican Consuls and Labor Organizing: Imperial Politics in the American
Southwest. (Austin: Univ. of Texas Press, 1999).
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).
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
Magden, Ronald E. A History of Seattle Waterfront Workers, 1884-1934.(Seattle: Trade Printery, 1991).
Morlan, Robert L. Political Prairie Fire: The Nonpartisan League, 1915-1922. (Minneapolis: University
of Minnesota Press, 1955). HD1485 NR M6 1985
Nelson, Bruce. Workers on the Waterfront: Seamen, Longshoremen and Unionism in the 1930s. (Urbana:
University of Illinois Press, 1989). HD6515 S4 N45
Powell, Allen Kent. The Next Time We Strike: Labor in Utah's Coal Fields, 1900-1933. (Logan: Utah
State, 1985). HD6515 M616 U87
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
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
Oct. 8: Progressives, Prohibition and Politics
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
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
Franklin, Jimmie L. Born Sober: Prohibition in Oklahoma, 1907-1929. (Norman: University of Oklahoma
Press, 1971). HV5090 O5 F7
Goldberg, Robert A. Hooded Empire: The Ku Klux Klan in Colorado. (Urbana: University of Illinois
Press, 1981).
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).
Robbins, William G. Lumberjacks and Legislators: Political Economy of the U. S. Lumber Industry,
1890-1941. (College Station: Texas A&M Press, 1982).
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
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
Oct. 15: The New Deal Era: Politics, Economics, Culture
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. Gerald D. Nash, “Conclusion: The West Transformed,” in The American West Transformed: The
Impact of the Second World War (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1985), 201-216.
3. Richard Lowitt, “From Pioneering to Planning,” in The New Deal and the West (Bloomington: Indiana
University Press, 1984), 218-228.
4. Neil Maher, "Crazy Quilt Farming on Round Land: The Great Depression, the Soil Conservation
Service, and the Politics of Landscape Change during the New Deal Era," Western Historical
Quarterly 31 (Autumn 2000), 319-340.
5. Jason Scott Smith, "New Deal Public Works at War: The WPA and Japanese American Internment,"
Pacific Historical Review 72 (February 2003), 63-92.
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).
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 n 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
Feinman, Ronald L. Twilight of Progressivism: The Western Republican Senators and the New Deal.
(Baltimore: Johns Hopkins, 1981). H31 J6 99th series, no. 1
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).
Parman, Donald S. Navajos and the New Deal. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1976). E99 N3 P37
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
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
Schruben, Francis W. Kansas in Turmoil, 1930-1936. (Columbia: Univ. of Missouri Press, 1969). F686 S3
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
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
Oct. 22: World War II in the West
Anderson, Karen. Wartime Women: Sex Roles, Family Relations and the Status of Women during World
War II. (Westport:Greenwood, 1981). HQ1420 A65
Arrington, Leonard J. and Anthony Cluff. Federally Financed Industrial Plants Constructed in Utah
During World War II. (Logan: Utah State University Press, 1969). HC107 U8 A795
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
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
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
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).
Larson, T. A. Wyoming's War Years, 1941-1945. (Palo Alto: Stanford Univ. Press, 1954). D769.85 W8 L8
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
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
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
Pagan, Eduardo Obregon. Politics of Youth and Race in Wartime Los Angeles, 1940-1945. (Princeton:
Princeton University Press, 1996).
Sanger, S. L. Working on the Bomb: An Oral History of WWII Hanford. (Portland: Portland State, 1995).
Simpson, Caroline Chung. An Absent Presence: Japanese Americans in Postwar American Culture, 1945-
60. (Durham: Duke Univ. Press, 2001).
Townsend, Kenneth W. World War II and the American Indian. (Albuquerque: UNM Press, 2000).
Twitchell, Heath. Northwest Epic: The Building of the Alaska Highway. (New York: St. Martin’s, 1992).
Oct. 29: The Urban West
1. Carl Abbott, "The Metropolitan Region: Western Cities in the New Urban Era," in Nash and
Etulain, The Twentieth Century West: Historical Interpretations (Albuquerque: UNM Press,
1989), 71-98.
2. Donald W. Meinig, "American Wests: Preface to a Geographical Interpretation,” Annals of the
Association of American Geographers 62 (June 1972), 159-184.
3. Roger D. Launius and Jessie L. Embry, "Cheyenne v. Denver: City Rivalry and the Quest for
Transcontinental Air Routes," Annals of Wyoming 68 (Summer 1996), 8-23.
4. W. J. Rorabaugh, "Introduction: Gold" and "Chapter 1: White," Berkeley at War, The 1960s (New
York: Oxford, 1989), 3-47.
5. Quintard Taylor, “Chapter 8: The Black Urban West, 1911-1940,” In Search of the Racial Frontier:
African Americans in the American West, 1528-1990 (New York: Norton, 1998), 222-250.
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
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
Davis, Mike. City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles. (NY: Verso, 1990). HN80 L7 D38
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
Hill, Patricia Evridge. Dallas: The Making of a Modern City. (Austin: Univ. of Texas Press, 1996).
Hise, Greg. Magnetic Los Angeles: Planning the 20th Century Metropolis. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins,
1997)
Issel, William, and Robert W. Cherny. San Francisco, 1865-1932: Politics, Power and Urban
Development. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1986). F869 S357 I86
Keane, James Thomas. Fritz B. Burns and the Development of Los Angeles: The Biography of a
Community Developer and Philanthropist. (Los Angeles: Hist. Society of Southern Calif., 2001).
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
Morrissey, Katherine G. Mental Territories: Mapping the Inland Empire. (Ithaca: Cornell Univ. Press,
1997). F852 M67 1997
Raftery, Judith Rosenberg. Land of Fair Promise: Politics and Reform in Los Angeles Schools, 1855-
1941. (Stanford University Press, 1992). LA 245 L6 R34
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
Sitten, Tom, and William Deverell (eds.) Metropolis in the Making: Los Angeles in the 1920s. (Berkeley:
Univ. of Calif. Press, 2001).
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)
Nov. 5: Western Land and Water
(All): John Wesley Powell, Arid Lands Report.
1. Paul Gates, “An Overview of American Land Policy,” Agricultural History 50 (January 1976), 213-
229.
2. Sherry L. Smith, Single Women Homesteaders: The Perplexing Case of Elinore Pruitt Stewart,”
Western Historical Quarterly 22 (May 1991), 163-184.
3. Norris Hundley, Jr., Water and the West in Historical Imagination,” Western Historical Quarterly 27
(Spring 1996), 5-31.
4. Lawrence B. Lee, "Water Resource History: A New Field of Historiography," Pacific Historical Review
1998
5. Geoffrey O'Gara, "Chapter 11: The Courts," in What You See in Clear Water: Indians, Whites, and a
Battle Over Water in the American West. (New York: Knopf, 2000), 172-194.
Land
Ambler, Marjane. Breaking the Iron Bonds. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1990).
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).
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
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
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).
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
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).
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 (Science)
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).
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 (Science)
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 (Science)
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
O’Gara, Geoffrey. What You See in Clear Water: Indians, Whites, and a Battle Over Water in the
American West. (New York: Knopf, 2000). E99 S4 O38
Pisani, Donald J. Water and American Government: The Reclamation Bureau, National Water Policy,
and the West, 1902-1935. (Berkeley: Univ. of California Press, 2002).
Reisner, Marc. Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water. (New York: Viking,
1986). HD1739 A17 R45
Rocca, Al M. America’s Master Dam Builder: The Engineering Genius of Frank T. Crowe. (New York:
University Press of America, 2001).
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 (Sci.)
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
Nov. 12: Diversity in the West
1. John H. Wunder, "What's Old about the New Western History: Race and Gender, Part 1," Pacific
Northwest Quarterly 85 (April 1994), 50-58.
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. Clifford A. Bullock, "Fired by Conscience: The Black 14 Incident at the University of Wyoming and
Black Protest in the Western Athletic Conference, 1968-1970," in Roberts, ed., Readings in
Wyoming History (Laramie: Skyline West, 2000), 91-102.
4. Quintard Taylor, "Chapter 10: The Civil Rights Movement in the West, 1950-1970,” and “Conclusion,”
In Search of the Racial Frontier: African Americans in the American West, 1528-1990 (New
York: Oxford, 1998), 278-315 .
5. Gail M. Nomura, "Significant Lives: Asia and Asian Americans in the History of the American West,"
Western Historical Quarterly 25 (Spring 1994), 69-88.
Native Americans
Berkhofer, Robert. White Man's Indian: Images of the American Indian from Columbus to the Present.
(New York: Knopf, 1978). E98 P99 B47
Britten, Thomas A. American Indians in World War I: At Home and At War. (Albuquerque: UNM Press,
1997). D570.8 I6 B75
Dippie, Brian W. Vanishing American: White Attitudes and U. S. Indian Policy. (Lawrence: Univ. Press
of Kansas, 1982).
Fixico, Donald L. Invasion of Indian Country in the 20th Century: American Capitalism and Tribal
Natural Resources. (Boulder: University Press of Colorado, 1998). E93 F515 1998
Fixico, Donald L. Termination and Relocation: Federal Indian Policy, 1945-1960. (Albuquerque: UNM
Press, 1986). E76.8 R47
Fowler, Loretta. Arapaho Politics, 1851-1978: Symbol in Crises of Authority. (Lincoln: University of
Nebraska Press, 1982). E99 A7 F68
Hagan, William T. Theodore Roosevelt and Six Friends of the Indian. (Norman: Univ. of Oklahoma
Press, 1997). E93 H227
Iverson, Peter. The Navajo Nation. (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1983). E99 N3 I9
Lazarus, Edward. Black Hills, White Justice. (New York: Harper Collins, 1991). E99 D1 L37
McPherson, Robert S. Navajo Land, Navajo Culture: The Utah Experience in the 20th Century. (Norman:
Univ. of Oklahoma Press, 2001). E99 N3 M34
Matthiessen, Peter. In the Spirit of Crazy Horse. (New York: Penguin, 1991). E93 M46
Philp, Kenneth R. John Collier's Crusade for Indian Reform: 1920-1954. (Tucson: University of Arizona
Press, 1977). E93 C7 P48
Philp, Kenneth R. Termination Revisited: American Indians on the Trail to Self-Determination. (Lincoln:
Univ. of Nebraska Press, 1999). E93 P55 1999
Pickering, Kathleen Ann. Lakota Culture, World Economy. (Lincoln: Univ. of Nebraska Press, 2000).
E99 T34 P53
Pommersheim, Frank. Braid of Feathers: American Indian Law and Contemporary Tribal Life. (Berkeley:
Univ. of Calif. Press, 1995). KF8205 P6
Sherry, John W. Land, Wind and Hard Words: A Story of Navajo Activism. (Albuquerque: UNM Press,
2002).
Szasz, Margaret C. Education and the American Indian: The Road to Self-Determination since 1928.
(Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1999). E97 S92
Trennert, Robert A. White Man's Medicine: Government Doctors and the Navajos, 1863-1955.
(Albuquerque: UNM Press, 1998). RA448.5 I5 T73
Weibel-Orlando, Joan. Indian Country, L. A.: Maintaining Ethnic Community in Complex Society
(Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1991). E78 C15 W48
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
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
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. The Los Angeles Barrio, 1850-1890: A Social History. (Berkeley:
University of California Press, 1979). F869 L89 M445
Gutierrez, David G. Walls and Mirrors: Mexican Americans, Mexican Immigrants and the Politics of
Ethnicity. (Berkeley: Univ. of California Press, 1995). E184 M5 G86
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
Pitti, Stephen J. The Devil in Silicon Valley: Northern California, Race and Mexican Americans.
(Princeton: Princeton University Press,
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-Amerians, 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
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
Lemke-Santangelo, Gretchen. Abiding Courage: African American Migrant Women and the East Bay
Community. (Chapel Hill: UNC Press, 1996). F868 S156 L45
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
Wollenberg, Charles. All Deliberate Speed: Segregation and Exclusion in California Schools, 1855-1975.
(Berkeley: UC Press, 1975). LA243 W58
Yung, Judy. Unbound Feet: A Social History of Chinese Women in San Francisco. (Berkeley: Univ. of
California Press, 1995). F869 S39 C595
Nov. 19: Two Resource-Based Western Industries: Agriculture and Mining
Common Readings: To be assigned.
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
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).
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).
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
Hoy, James F. The Cattle Guard: Its History and Lore. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1982).
SF206 H68 1982 (Science)
Igler, David. Industrial Cowboys: Miller and Lux and the Transformation of the Far West, 1850-1920.
(Berkeley: Univ. of Calif. Press, 2001).
Isern, Thomas D. Custom Combining on the Great Plains: A History. (Norman: University of Oklahoma
Press, 1981). S699 I78 (Sci)
Iverson, Peter. When Indians Became Cowboys: Native Peoples and Cattle Ranching in the American
West. (Norman: Univ. of Oklahoma Press, 1994). E78 W5 I94
Jelinek, Lawrence J. Harvest Empire: A History of California Agriculture. (San Fran.: Boyd & Fraser,
1979)
Mitchell, Don. The Lie of the Land: Migrant Workers and the California Landscape. (Minneapolis: Univ.
of Minnesota Press, 1996). HD1527 C2 M58
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 (Science)
Ruiz, Vicki. Cannery Women, Cannery Lives: Mexican Women, Unionization and the California Food
Processing Industry, 1930-1950. (Albuquerque: UNM Press, 1987). HD6515 F72 U547
Simpson, Peter K. Community of Cattlemen: A Social History of the Cattle Industry in Southeast Oregon,
1869-1912. (Moscow: University of Idaho Press, 1987). HD9433 U5 H277
Svobida, Lawrence. Farming the Dust Bowl: A First-Hand Account from Kansas. (Lawrence: University
Press of Kansas, 1986).
Taylor, Judith M. The Olive in California: History of an Immigrant Tree. (Berkeley: Univ. of Calif. Press,
2000).
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.
Worster, Donald. Dust Bowl: The Southern Plains in the 1930s. (New York: Oxford, 1979). F786 W87
Minerals in the West
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
Nov. 26: Law in the West
1. David L. McFadden, "Legal Research for Historians," Western Legal History 10 (1997), 3-30.
2. John H. Wunder, "What's Old about the New Western History: Law, Part III," Western Legal History
10 (1997), 85-116.
3. John Phillip Reid, "Introduction: The Layers of Western Legal History," in Gordon M. Bakken, Law in
the Western United States. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2000), 3-42.
4. Gabriel J. Chin, "Citizenship and Exclusion: Wyoming's Anti-Japanese Alien Land Law in Context,"
Wyoming Law Review 1 (2001), 497-521.
5. Phil Roberts, “The Prohibition Agency’s First Case: Official Zeal, Mistaken Identity, and Murder in
Wyoming, 1919,” Western Legal History 11 (Summer/Fall, 1998), 145-161.
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
Fisch, Louise Ann. All Rise: Reynaldo G. Garza, the First Mexican American Federal Judge. (College
Station: Texas A&M Press, 1996). KF373 G35 F57
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.