Table of Contents

Foreword by Glenda Riley
Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Rise of Western Historiography, Richard W Etulain
Part I: Precursors to Frederick Jackson Turner
Josiah Royce: The West as Community, Robert V. Hine
Hubert Howe Bancroft: First Western Regionalist, Charles S. Peterson
Part II: Frederick Jackson Turner and Classic Western Historians
Turner's First Stand: The Significance of Significance in American History, William Cronon
Frederick Jackson Turner and Western Regionalism, Michael C. Steiner
After Turner: The Western Historiography of Frederic Logan Paxson, Richard W. Etulain
Walter Prescott Webb and the Search for the West, Elliott West
Herbert Eugene Bolton: The Making of a Western Historian, Donald E. Worcester
James C. Malin: A Voice from the Grassland, Allan G. Bogue
Part III: Recent Western Historians
Henry Nash Smith's Myth of the West, Lee Clark Mitchell
Persistent Traits and the Persistent Historian: The American Frontier and Ray Allen Billington, Patricia Nelson Limerick
Earl Pomeroy and the Reorientation of Western American History, Michael P Malone
Conclusion: Visions and Revisions: Recent Interpretations of the American West, Richard W. Etulain
Contributors
Index