Writing Western history
Subtitle: essays on major Western historians
By: edited by Richard W. Etulain ; foreword by Glenda Riley.
Contributors: Etulain, Richard W.
Publisher: University of Nevada Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Reno
Language: eng
Number of pages: 370
Subjects: Historians -- West (U.S.); West (U.S.) -- Historiography.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Originally published: Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, 1991. With new introd.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : the rise of Western historiography / Richard W. Etulain; title: Josiah Royce : the West as community / Robert V. Hine; title: Hubert Howe Bancroft : first Western regionalist / Charles S. Peterson; title: Turner's first stand : the significance of significance in American history / William Cronon; title: Frederick Jackson Turner and Western regionalism / Michael C. Steiner; title: After Turner : the Western historiography of Frederic Logan Paxson / Richard W. Etulain; title: Walter Prescott Webb and the search for the West / Elliott West; title: Herbert Eugene Bolton : the making of a Western historian / Donald E. Worcester; title: James C. Malin : a voice from the grassland / Allan G. Bogue; title: Henry Nash Smith's myth of the West / Lee Clark Mitchell; title: Persistent traits and the persistent historian : the American frontier and Ray Allen Billington / Patricia Nelson Limerick; title: Earl Pomeroy and the reorientation of Western American history / Michael P. Malone; title: Conclusion. Visions and revisions : recent interpretations of the American West / Richard W. Etulain.