Readings

Required Books (Fall 2016):

Kate Turabian, A Manual for Writers of Research Papers, Theses and Dissertations / 8e (U of Chicago, 2013) ISBN 978-0226816388

Carol L. Higham and William H. Katerberg, Conquests and Consequences: The American West from Frontier to Region 3e (Wiley-Blackwell, 2009) ISBN 78-0882952703 – SUMMER READING

Todd Kerstetter, God’s Country, Uncle Sam’s Land: Faith and Conflict in the American West (U Illinois, 2006) ISBN 978-0252075889

Ned Blackhawk, Violence over the Land: Indians and Empires in the Early American West (Harvard UP, 2006) 978-0674027206

Recommended Software:

It is my strong recommendation that you use a well-designed research and citation management program to help you collect, annotate, analyze, and cite your paper’s sources. We have a campus-wide license for Endnote; see the library reference staff for more information. Free options include ProQuest Flow, Mendeley, Evernote (which lacks the citation capability) and Zotero, which is the one I personally use.

Supplemental Reading… “Launch Pad” Books

Obtain and study one of the books on this list, and use it as a launching point for your own paper.

Thomas G. Andrews, Killing for Coal: America’s Deadliest Labor War (Harvard University Press, 2008)

Colin G. Calloway, One Vast Winter Count: The Native American West Before Lewis & Clark (University of Nebraska Press, 2003)

Rachel Calof and J. Sanford Rikoon, Rachel Calof’s Story: A Jewish Homesteader on the Northern Plains (Indiana University Press, 1995)

David Grua, Surviving Wounded Knee: The Lakotas and the Politics of Memory (Oxford University Press, 2016)

David Gutierrez, Walls and Mirrors: Mexican Americans, Mexican Immigrants, and the Politics of Ethnicity (University of California Press, 1995)

Susan Lee Johnson, Roaring Camp: The Social World of the California Gold Rush (W. W. Norton, 2000)

Erika Lee and Judy Yung, Angel Island: Immigrant Gateway to America (Oxford University Press, 2010)

Patricia Limerick, Legacy of Conquest (W. W. Norton, 1987, rev. ed. 2006)

Marc Reisner, Cadillac Desert: The American West and its Disappearing Water (Penguin Books, 1993, also various earlier editions starting in 1986)

Tiya Miles, The Ties that Bind: The Story of an Afro-Cherokee Family in Slavery and Freedom (University of California Press, 2015)

Yoshiko Uchida, Desert Exile: The Uprooting of a Japanese American Family (University of Washington Press, 1982, rev. ed. 2015)

Richard White, It’s Your Misfortune and None of my Own: A New History of the American West (University of Oklahoma Press, 1991)