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Elliott West

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#3487

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#940

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PhD History University of Colorado Boulder
Masters History University of Colorado Boulder
Bachelors History University of Colorado Boulder

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According to Wikipedia, Elliott West is an American historian and author. He studies the history of the American West. Biography West grew up in a family of journalists. His father was an editor for the Dallas Morning News, and his brother was a travel writer. West received an undergraduate degree in journalism at the University of Texas at Austin. West completed master's and doctoral degrees at the University of Colorado. He said that he applied to Colorado because he liked the state, and although he applied to the school's history program, he was still planning to become a journalist.

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Elliott West's Published Works

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The Way to the West: Essays on the Central Plains (1997) (60)
Daniel Boone: The Life and Legend of an American Pioneer (1992) (56)
Growing Up in Twentieth-Century America: A History and Reference Guide (1989) (39)
The Last Indian War: The Nez Perce Story (2009) (37)
Growing Up With the Country: Childhood on the Far Western Frontier (1989) (31)
Small Worlds: Children and Adolescents in America, 1850-1950 (1992) (31)
Coming of Age in Buffalo: Youth and Authority in the Postwar Era (1989) (26)
The Saloon on the Rocky Mountain Mining Frontier (1979) (19)
The Line Which Separates: Race, Gender and the Making of the Alberta-Montana Borderlands (2006) (17)
Beyond Black and White: Race, Ethnicity, and Gender in the U. S. South and Southwest (2005) (14)
The contested plains : Indians, goldseekers, & the rush to Colorado (1999) (14)
Small Worlds: Children and Adolescents in America, 1850-1950. (1993) (10)
Encyclopedia of Frontier Biography (1988) (9)
The Essential West: Collected Essays (2012) (8)
Patrón Leadership at the Crossroads: Southern Colorado in the Late Nineteenth Century (1973) (7)
Bacon, Beans and Galantines: Food and Foodways on the Western Mining Frontier (1987) (6)
Historical evidence of riparian forests in the Great Plains and how that knowledge can aid with restoration and management. (2004) (5)
Mining Cultures: Men, Women, and Leisure in Butte, 1914-41 Mary Murphy (1998) (4)
Boyhood in America : An Encyclopedia (2001) (4)
The Danube Programme: The Challenge of International River‐Basin Management (1999) (3)
Expanding the Racial Frontier (2004) (2)
Essays on urban America (1975) (2)
Heathens and Angels: Childhood in the Rocky Mountain Mining Towns (1983) (2)
Thomas Prince and New England History (1974) (2)
The Walter Prescott Webb Memorial Lectures: Essays on Walter Prescott Webb@@@Walter Prescott Webb: His Life and Impact (1977) (2)
Essays on American foreign policy (1975) (2)
What Books Should be More Widely Read in Environmental History? (2005) (1)
Please Rewind: The Televideo West (1995) (1)
Hymn to Mainstream Values (2013) (1)
The Great Arizona Orphan Abduction. By Linda Gordon. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1999. xvi, 416 pp. $29.95, ISBN 0-674-36041-9.) (2001) (1)
Listen Up: Hearing the Unheard in Western History (2003) (1)
Settling the Canadian-American West, 1890-1915: Pioneer Adaptation and Community Building John W. Bennett Seena B. Kohl (1997) (1)
Review of Lamar, Charlie Siringo's West: An Interpretive Biography. (2007) (0)
California, Coincidence, and Empire (2018) (0)
Howard's View: South by Southwest (2005) (0)
Walter Prescott Webb. His Life and Impact@@@The Walter Prescott Webb Memorial Lectures: Essays on Walter Prescott Webb (1977) (0)
Practical psychology in dentistry for children; a prime essential for success. (1946) (0)
The Ghosts of Guerrilla Memory: How Civil War Bushwhackers Became Gunslingers in the American West by Matthew Christopher Hulbert (review) (2017) (0)
Essays on Walter Prescott Webb (1977) (0)
Encyclopedia of the Great Plains (review) (2006) (0)
The Chicano : essays (1975) (0)
Good Guys, Bad Guys: The Movie Western and the Popular Mind (2013) (0)
The Future of Reconstruction Studies Reconstruction in the West (2017) (0)
ISHI IN THREE CENTURIES Karl Kroeber Clifton Kroeber (2004) (0)
Childhood on the Farm: Work, Play, and Coming of Age in the Midwest (review) (2007) (0)
Psychology in dentistry for children. (1947) (0)
Continental Reckoning (2023) (0)
Rooted in Dust: Surviving Drought and Depression in Southwestern Kansas. By Pamela Riney-Kehrberg. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1994. xiv + 249 pp. Illustrations, maps, tables, appendixes, endnotes, bibliography, index. $25.00 (1996) (0)
BOOK REVIEWS (2006) (0)
The Contested Plains (2023) (0)
The American West: Competing Visions. By Karen R. Jones and John Wills. (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2009. viii, 344 pp. Cloth, $135.00, ISBN 978-0-7486-2251-1. Paper, $45.00, ISBN 978-0-7486-2252-8.) (2010) (0)
The Native Ground: Indians and Colonists in the Heart of the Continent (2007) (0)
In brief: History (1998) (0)
Fifty Years after "The Big Sky": New Perspectives on the Fiction and Films of A. B. Guthrie, Jr. by William E. Farr, William W. Bevis (2003) (0)
Theodore Roosevelt, the West, and the New America (2020) (0)
2. California, Coincidence, and Empire (2019) (0)
Families in the West (1994) (0)
The Sand Creek Massacre (2021) (0)
Book Reviews (2006) (0)
Review of Ostler, The Plains Sioux and U.S. Colonialism from Lewis and Clark to Wounded Knee (2006) (0)
Essays on Walter Prescott Webb and the teaching of history (1986) (0)
After the Gold Rush: Society in Grass Valley and Nevada City, California, 1849–1870. By Ralph Mann. (Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1982. xvii + 302 pp. $25.00.) (1984) (0)
Good News, Not so Good News, and Strange Combinations (2007) (0)
Cowboy Culture: A Saga of Five Centuries. By David Dary. (New York: Knopf, 1981. xii + 384 pp. Maps, illustrations, table, notes, a bibliography for the general reader, and index. $17.95.) (1982) (0)
Roaming the Catlin Gallery: Art History on CD-ROM (2000) (0)
In Brief: Biography (1999) (0)
Hooded Empire: the Ku Klux Klan in Colorado . By Robert Alan Goldberg. Urbana, University of Illinois Press, 1981. Pp. xv + 255. $13.50. (1982) (0)
Childhood on the Farm: Work, Play, and Coming of Age in the Midwest. By Pamela Riney-Kehrberg (Lawrence, University Press of Kansas, 2005) 300 pp. $34.95 (2008) (0)
6. Grain Kings, Rubber Dreams, and Stock Exchanges: How Transportation and Communication Changed Frontier Cities (2013) (0)
Frederick Jackson Turner: Strange Roads Going down Allan G. Bogue (2000) (0)
Hell of a Vision: Regionalism and the Modern American West (2013) (0)
Flight Maps: Adventures with Nature in Modem America. By Jennifer Price. New York: Basic Books, 1999. xxii + 325 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. $24.00 (2000) (0)
Wyatt Earp: A Vigilante Life (2014) (0)
The Future of Reconstruction Studies (2017) (0)

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