American West and Its Interpreters

Richard W. Etulain is a professor emeritus of history at the University of New Mexico, where he also edited the New Mexico Historical Review and directed the Center for the American West (1989-2001). Etulain served as president at both the Western Literature and Western History associations, and he is the author or editor of more than sixty books on the history and cultures of the American West.

Richard Etulain is one of the most significant interpreters of Western history, and especially its literary and cultural history, of the past half-century. To gather his essays, old and new, in one volume is a great contribution." —Michael S. Green, author of Nevada: A History of the Silver State "An important topic masterfully executed by the leading authority in the dual fields of literary history and historiography." —David V. Holtby, author of Lest We Forget: World War I and New Mexico

• PrefaceChapter One. Transitions in Western HistoriographyChapter Two. The American Literary West and Its Interpreters: The Rise of a New HistoriographyChapter Three. Shifting Interpretations of Western American Cultural HistoryChapter Four. The Twentieth-Century American West: A New Historiographical FrontierChapter Five. Research Opportunities in Twentieth-Century Western Cultural HistoryChapter Six. After Turner: The Western Historiography of Frederic Logan PaxsonChapter Seven. Earl Pomeroy: Reorienting Western HistoryChapter Eight. Inventing the Pacific Northwest: Novelists and the Region's HistoryChapter Nine. Western Stories for the Next GenerationChapter Ten. Beyond Conflict, Toward Complexity: New Views of the American WestChapter Eleven. Research Opportunities in Western HistoryPoll: The Most Influential Western HistoriansNotesAmerican West Historiography: Books and Essays