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According to Wikipedia, William Deverell is a historian of the American West and a professor of history at the University of Southern California, where he directs the Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West, and is Chair of the department of History at Dornsife College and Arts and Sciences.

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Whitewashed Adobe: The Rise of Los Angeles and the Remaking of Its Mexican Past (2004) (127)
Eden by Design: The 1930 Olmsted-Bartholomew Plan for the Los Angeles Region (2000) (57)
Railroad Crossing: Californians and the Railroad, 1850–1910 by William Deverell (1994) (33)
California progressivism revisited (1995) (24)
Fighting Words: The Significance of the American West in the History of the United States (1994) (21)
An unusual case of sciatic nerve paralysis. (1968) (17)
A companion to the American West (2003) (15)
To Loosen the Safety Valve: Eastern Workers and Western Lands (1988) (12)
Yellowstone: A Wilderness Besieged Richard A. Bartlett (1987) (6)
The Los Angeles 'Free Harbor Fight' (1991) (6)
A companion to Los Angeles (2010) (6)
Water and Los Angeles: A Tale of Three Rivers, 1900-1941 (2016) (5)
LA's early moderns : art, architecture, photography (2003) (4)
Two Rooms: The Life of Charles Erskine Scott Wood (1998) (4)
The Governor: The Life and Legacy of Leland Stanford, a California Colossus (2005) (4)
Redemptive California? Re-thinking the post-Civil War (2007) (4)
A companion to California history (2013) (3)
Come Back, Tom Joad: Thoughts on a California Dreamer (2000) (3)
'The art political' and Los Angeles park planning (2001) (2)
Dividing Lines: Canals, Railroads and Urban Rivalry in Ohio’s Hocking Valley, 1825–1875. By David H. Mould. Dayton: Wright State University Press, 1994. Pp. xi, 306. $51.00 (1995) (2)
Poor Little Rich Boy (2002) (2)
Water and Los Angeles (2019) (2)
A Companion to Los Angeles: Deverell/A Companion to Los Angeles (2010) (2)
Convalescence and California: The Civil War Comes West (2008) (1)
SUNSET LIMITED: The Southern Pacific and the Development of the American West, 1850-1930 Richard Orsi (2006) (1)
Politics and the Twentieth‐Century American West (2007) (1)
Passage to Union: How the Railroads Transformed American life, 1829–1929. By Sarah H. Gordon. (Chicago: Dee, 1997. xii, 403 pp. $30.00, ISBN 1-56663-138-6.) (1997) (1)
:California: America's High-Stakes Experiment. By Peter Schrag . (Berkeley, University of California Press, 2006. xi + 328 pp. $24.95) (2008) (1)
Orange Empires: Comparing Miami and Los Angeles (1999) (1)
Holt Mcdougal United States history : teacher's edition (2012) (1)
Battle lines in an ancient forest (2019) (0)
Building an octopus : railroads and society in the late nineteenth century Far West (1989) (0)
The "Ham and Eggs Movement" in Southern California: Public Opinion on Economic Redistribution in the 1938 Campaign (2008) (0)
All Waters Run Deep (1997) (0)
What is this railroad to do for us (2011) (0)
The Atomic West (review) (2000) (0)
Shaped by the West, Volume 2: A History of North America from 1850 (2018) (0)
I'll See You in My Dreams (2011) (0)
A Bloc of One: The Political Career of Hiram W. Johnson Richard Coke Lower (1995) (0)
Holt McDougal United States History (2009) (0)
Book Review: Hurtado, Herbert Eugene Bolton: Historian of the American Borderlands, by William Deverell (2014) (0)
Los Angeles, 1900 (2012) (0)
From West to East: California and the Making of the American Mind Stephen Schwartz (2000) (0)
A Conversation with William F. Deverell, Damon B. Akins, and William J. Bauer Jr., about We Are the Land (2021) (0)
Forget it, JakeSearching for the truth in Chinatown (2013) (0)
The Desert Highway for Our God (2019) (0)
The Abattoir of the Prairie (1999) (0)
Review: Kearny's Dragoons Out West: The Birth of the U.S. Cavalry, by John Gorenfeld and Will Gorenfeld (2017) (0)
Obscenity, hate and artistic freedom (2004) (0)
POSTSURBURBAN CALIFORNIA: The Transformation of Orange County Since World War II Robert Kling Spencer Olin Mark Poster (1995) (0)
Prize Reflections 1997 Western History Association Published Prize Winners (1998) (0)
American West Chronicle (2007) (0)
Book reviews (2001) (0)
Review: Color Coded: Party Politics in the American West, 1950–2016 by Walter Nugent (2019) (0)
Battle lines in an ancient forest (2019) (0)
Shaped by the West, Volume 1 (2019) (0)
French Architects and Engineers in the Age of Enlightenment (review) (2000) (0)
A Golden State: Mining and Economic Development in Gold Rush California. Edited by James J. Rawls and Richard J. Orsi. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999. 335 pp. Illustrations. Cloth, $50.00; paper, $24.95. ISBN: cloth 0-520-21770-5; paper 0-520-21771-3 (2000) (0)
L.A. River: Past, Present, Future Conference Roundtable Discussion (2014) (0)
Claims and Reclaims in the American West (2010) (0)
Endangered Dreams: The Great Depression in California Kevin Starr (1997) (0)
Book Review: Huntley, The Making of Yosemite: James Mason Hutchings and the Origin of America’s Most Popular National Park, by William Deverell (2014) (0)
Recurrent Dislocations of the Patella: Surgical Experiences at Duke University Medical Center and Affiliated Hospitals (1965) (0)
Shaped by the West, Volume 2 (2019) (0)
Representing Cities in a Digital Age (2017) (0)
Imagining Indians. Produced and directed by Victor Masayesva, Jr. 1992; color; 30 minutes. English with Hopi, Cheyenne, Lakota, Navajo, and Blackfoot. Distributor: Victor Masayesva, Jr., P.O. Box 747, Hotevilla, Ariz. 86030 (602) 734-6600 (1993) (0)
20TH CENTURY LOS ANGELES. POWER, PROMOTION AND SOCIAL CONFLICT Norman M. Klein Martin J. Schiesl (1992) (0)
Notes from the West to the Midwest (2017) (0)
Looking For Los Angeles in La La Land (2020) (0)
LOS ANGELES AND THE GREAT DEPRESSION Leonard Leader (1992) (0)
Bricks, Seeds, Culture, and History (2014) (0)
Conquest to Convalescence (2014) (0)
The dance of Shiva (1984) (0)
Teaching California History in a Global Context (2009) (0)
The Problem and Promise of the Los Angeles River (2014) (0)
Yosemite: Art of an American Icon (2006) (0)
The West in the history of the nation : a reader (2000) (0)
For the love of uncle (1993) (0)
The American West: A Twentieth-Century History. By Michael P. Malone and Richard W. Etulain. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1989. xii + 347 pp. Paper, $12.95, ISBN 0-8032-8167-6.) (1993) (0)
Western Vistas: Historiography, 1971 to Today (2011) (0)
Littletowners (1996) (0)
7. Redemption Falls Short: Soldier and Surgeon in the Post–Civil War Far West (2019) (0)

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