For students and faculty in the SMU-in-Taos program, this list of books and journal articles in the Fort Library provides a starting point for research on the west, however defined; the myth of the west; and the work of the new west historians (including Richard W. Etulain, Patricia Nelson Limerick, Michael P. Malone, Gerald D. Nash, Donald J. Pisani, and Richard White).
Use PONI to determine the call numbers for these titles and to find other books on more specific aspects of Western history. Journals are shelved alphabetically by title, without call numbers.
Reference
American West in the Twentieth Century:
a Bibliography (1997)
The American West, Year by Year (1995)
Bibliographical Guide to the Study of
Western American Literature (1995)
Dictionary of the American West (1992)
New Encyclopedia of the American West
(Lamar, 1998, c. 1977)
Oxford History of the American West (1994)
General
An American Vision: Far Western Landscape
and National Culture, 1820-1920 (Hyde, Anne Farrar, 1990)
American West: A New Interpretive History
(Hine, 2000)
The American West: A Twentieth-Century
History (Malone
& Etulain, 1989)
American West: An Appraisal (Ferris,
1963)
The American West: Living the Frontier
Dream (Arnold,
1996)
"The American West: From Frontier to Region,"
(Ridge,
Martin),
New Mexico Historical
Review, 64:2 (April 1989)
The American West Transformed: The Impact
of the Second World War (Nash,
1995)
Colony and Empire: The Capitalist Transformation
of the American West (1994)
Conference on the History of Western America
(1962)
Conversations with Wallace Stegner on
Western History and Literature (1983/1990)
Creating the West: Historical Interpretations,
1890-1990 (Nash, 1991)
Exploration and Empire: The Explorer and
the Scientist in the Winning of the American West (Goetzmann,
1966)
Far West and the Plains in Transition,
1859-1900
The Federal Landscape: An Economic History
of the Twentieth-Century West (Nash, 1999)
Frontier Experience and the American Dream:
Essays on American Literature (1989)
The Frontier in American Culture (White,
R., Limerick, eds., 1994)
History, Frontier and Section: Three Essays
(F.
J. Turner, rpt. 1993)
It’s Your Misfortune and None of My Own:
a History of the American
West (White,
1991)
Journal of the Southwest, vol. 32,
no 4 (winter 1990); special issue on
Inventing the Southwest
Legacy of Conquest: the Unbroken Past of
the American West (Limerick,
1988)
"Land, Sky, and People: The Southwest Defined,"
(Byrkit, James W.) Journal of the Southwest,
vol.
34, no.3 (Autumn 1992, entire issue)
Major Problems in the History of the American
West: Documents and Essays (1989)
The Metropolitan Frontier: Cities in the
Modern American West (Abbott, 1993)
Myth and the History of the Hispanic Southwest(Weber,
1988)
New Significance: Re-envisioning the History
of the American West (essays, 1996)
New Western History: The Territory Ahead
(Robinson, 1998)
New Westers: The West in Contemporary
American Culture (Johnson, 1996)
Old Southwest, New Southwest: Essays on
a Region and its Literature (1987)
Owen Wister’s West (selected
articles, 1987)
People of the West (Duncan,
1996; PBS series)
Reflections of Western Historians (1967)
Reimaging the Modern American West: A
Century of Fiction, History, and Art (Etulain,
1996)
Reopening the Western Frontier (from
High
Country News, 1988, on economic and
environmental issues in the West)
Researching Western History: Topics in
the Twentieth Century (Nash and
Etulain,
eds. 1997)
Rivers of Empire: Water, Aridity, and
the Growth of the American
West (Worster,
1986,1992)
A Sense of the American West: An Anthology
of Environmental
History (Worster,
1998)
Southwest in the American Imagination:
The Writings of Sylvester
Baxter, 1881-1889 (1996)
Southwest: South or West? (Vandiver,
1975)
To Reclaim a Divided West (Pisanti,
1992)
The Turner Thesis Concerning the Role
of the Frontier in
American History (Taylor,
1956)
Trails: Toward a New Western History (Limerick,
ed., 1991)
Transforming the Western Image in 20th
Century American Art
Twentieth Century West: Historical Interpretations
(Nash,
1989)
Under an Open Sky: Rethinking America’s
Western Past (Cronon, et. al., 1989)
Under Western Skies: Nature and History
in the American West (Woster, 1992)
Waiting for the Earth to Turn Over: Identity
and the Late Twentieth-Century
American West (Garrison,
1996)
The Waning of the West (Steiner,
1989)
The West (Geoffrey Ward,
PBS series, 1996)
The West of Billy the Kid (Nolan,
1998)
The West of the Imagination (Goetzmann,
1986)
Image/Myth of the West
(NOTE:
Many titles in the General category above include research on myth and
image in
the West and Southwest; consult
titles in both lists.)
Beyond the Mythic West (Udall,
et.
al., 1990)
Celluloid Indians: Native Americans and
Film (1999)
Cinema Southwest: An Illustrated Guide
to the Movies and Their Locations (2000)
"The Enduring Myth and the Modern West,"
(Erisman), in Researching Western
History: Topics inthe
Twentieth Century (1997)
Essays on the Changing Images of the Southwest
(1994)
Fatal Environment: The Myth of the Frontier
in the Age of Industrialization,
1800-1890 (Slotkin,
1998)
Imaging Indians in the Southwest (Dilworth,
1996)
Kill the Cowboy: A Battle of Mythology
in the New West (Russell, 1993)
Myth of the West (Bruce,
1990)
Myth and the History of the Hispanic Southwest
(Weber, 1988)
Mythic West in Twentieth-Century America
(Athearn, 1986)
100 Years of Filmmaking in New Mexico,
1898-1998 (1998)
Reading the West: An Anthology of Dime
Westerns (1997)
Regeneration Through Violence: The Mythology
of the American Frontier,
1600-1860 (Slotkin,
1973)
Telling Western Stories from Buffalo Bill
to Larry McMurtry (Etulain, 1999)
Transforming the Western image in 20th
Century American Art (1992)
Virgin Land: The American West as Symbol
and Myth (1978)
The Western: Parables of the American
Dream (Wallman, 1999)
Wild West Show! (1994)
Wild West Shows (Reddin,
1999)
Wild West Shows and the Images of American
Indians, 1883-1933 (Moses,
1996)
Journal Articles
"Adolph Bandelier's History of the Borderlands,"
Journal
of the Southwest,
30:1 (Spring 1988)
"Constituting the Southwest; Contesting the
Southwest; Re-Inventing the Southwest,"
(Riley, Michael J.), Journal of the Southwest, 36:3 (Autumn 1994)
"Constructed Province: History and the Making
of the Last American West," (Emmons,
David M. and a roundtable of responses), Western Historical Quarterly,
XXV:4 (Winter 1994)
"Fighting Words: The Significance of the
American West in the History of the
United States," (Deverell, William), Western Historical Quarterly,
XXV:2 (Summer 1994).
"Frontier West: Process or Place?" (Thompson,
Gerald), Journal of the
Southwest, 29:4 (Winter 1987)
"Interpretations of the American West: A
Descriptive Bibliography
(Rundell, Walter, Jr.),
Arizona and the West, 3:1 (Spring 1961)
"John Francis Bannon and the Historiography
of the Spanish Borderlands,"
(Weber, David J.), Journal of the Southwest, 29:4 (Winter 1987)
"Land, Sky, and People: The Southwest Defined,"
(Byrkit, James W.),
Journal of the Southwest, 34:3 (Autumn 1992)
"A Place of Extremes: Nature, History, and
the American West," (Neel, Susan Rhoades),
Western Historical Quarterly, XXV:4 (Winter 1994).
"Talking, Reading and Writing Western History,"
(Cox, Stephen), Journal
of the Southwest, 29:4 (Winter 1987)
"Water and the West in Historical Imagination,"
(Hundley, Norris, Jr.),
Western Historical Quarterly, XXVII:1 (Spring 1996)
"The West and the American Age of Exploration
(Goetzmann, William H.),
Arizona and the West, 2:3 (Autumn 1960)