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Probing the American West : papers from the Santa Fe conference

Title
Probing the American West : papers from the Santa Fe conference / edited by K. Ross Toole, John Alexander Carroll, Robert M. Utley, A.R. Mortensen ; with an introduction by Ray A. Billington.
Author
Conference on the History of Western America (1st : 1961 : Santa Fe, N.M.)
Publication
Santa Fe, New Mexico : Museum of New Mexico Press, [1962]

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Additional Authors
  • Toole, K. Ross (Kenneth Ross), 1920-1981
  • Carroll, John Alexander
  • Utley, Robert M., 1929-2022
  • Mortensen, A. Russell (Arlington Russell), 1911-1995
  • Billington, Ray Allen, 1903-1981.
  • Scholes, France V. (France Vinton), 1897-1979.
  • Morgan, Dale L. (Dale Lowell), 1914-1971.
  • Holliday, J. S.
  • Winther, Oscar Osburn, 1903-1970.
  • Rundell, Walter.
Description
viii, 216 p.; 25 cm.
Subject
  • Historiography
  • West (U.S.) > History > Congresses
  • West (U.S.) > History > Historiography
  • West United States
Genre/Form
  • Conference papers and proceedings.
  • History.
  • Actes de congrès.
Bibliography (note)
  • Bibliographical references included in "Notes" (p. 193-205)
Contents
Introduction : The Santa Fe Conference and the writing of Western history / Ray A. Billington -- Historiography of the Spanish Southwest : Retrospect and prospect / France V. Scholes -- The significance and value of the Overland Journal / Dale L. Morgan -- The California gold rush reconsidered / J.S. Holliday -- The persistence of horse-drawn transportation in the trans-Mississippi West, 1865-1900 / Oscar Osburn Winther -- The West as an operatic setting / Walter Rundell, Jr. -- Mothers of the mixed-bloods : The marginal woman in the history of the upper Missouri / John C. Ewers -- Quanah Parker, Indian judge / William T. Hagan -- Mounted riflemen : The real role of cavalry in the Indian wars / James S. Hutchins -- Mackenzie against Dull Knife : Breaking the Northern Cheyennes in 1876 / Lessing H. Nohl, Jr. -- Exploding fur trade fairy tales / Merrill J. Mattes -- Untapped sources of Western agricultural history / Gilbert C. Fite -- The Federal government and cattlemen on the Plains, 1900-1945 / John T. Schlebecker -- Hoskaninni : A gold mining venture in Glen Canyon / Dwight L. Smith -- Miles Poindexter : A western Senator and the Progressive Movement / Howard W. Allen -- Frederic Remington and Owen Wister : The story of a friendship, 1893-1909 / N. Orwin Rush -- The end of an era : Urban development on the Irvine Ranch of Southern California / Robert V. Hine -- Imperial perspectives on the borderlands / Howard F. Cline -- British interest in the history of western America / John A. Hawgood -- Some unfinished tasks in Western history / Savoie Lottinville.
LCCN
62053525
OCLC
  • ocm04655278
  • 4655278
  • SCSB-660459
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library