"Published in cooperation with the UNM Center for the American West."
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
The rise of western historiography / Richard W. Etulain --Josiah Royce : the West as community / Robert V. Hine -- Hubert Howe Bancroft : first western regionalist / Charles S. Peterson -- Turner's first stand : the significance of significance in American history / William Cronon -- Frederick Jackson Turner and western regionalism / Michael C. Steiner -- After Turner : the western historiography of Frederic Logan Paxson / Richard W. Etulain -- Walter Prescott Webb and the search for the West / Elliott West -- Herbert Eugene Bolton : the making of a western historian / Donald E. Worcester -- James C. Malin : a voice from the grassland / Allan G. Bogue -- Henry Nash Smith's myth of the West / Lee Clark Mitchell -- Persistent traits and the persistent historian : the American frontier and Ray Allen Billington / Patricia Nelson Limerick -- Earl Pomeroy and the reorientation of western American history / Michael P. Malone -- Visions and revisions : recent interpretations of the American West / Richard W. Etulain.