Writing the history of the American West
By: essays and commentary by Martin Ridge ... [et al.] ; exhibition catalogue by George Miles ; preface by John B. Hench.
Contributors: Ridge, Martin.; Miles, George A.; American Antiquarian Society.
Publisher: American Antiquarian Society
Published: 1991
Place of publication: Worcester
Language: eng
Number of pages: 166
Subjects: West (U.S.) -- Historiography -- Congresses; West (U.S.) -- Guidebooks -- Exhibitions
Notes: "Reprinted from the Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society, volume 101, part 1, April 1991"--T.p. verso.

"The larger part of this collection is comprised of three papers given at a symposium ... held at the University of California, Berkeley, on April 19, 1991"--P. 63.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Preface / John B. Hench; title: Frederick Jackson Turner and his ghost : the writing of Western history / Martin Ridge; title: A view from the Spanish Borderlands / Elizabeth A.H. John; title: The continuity between the Old West and the New / Alvin M. Josephy, Jr.; title: Commentary / Howard L. Lamar; title: Go West and grow up with the country : an exhibition of nineteenth-century guides to the American West in the collection of the American Antiquarian Society / George Miles.