The human tradition in the American West / edited by Benson Tong and Regan A. Lutz.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Tong, Benson, 1964-

Lutz, Regan A., 1954-

Series:

Human tradition in America ; no. 10.

The Human tradition in America ; no. 10

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

West (U.S.)--Biography.

West (U.S.).

West (U.S.)--History--Anecdotes.

Pioneers--West (U.S.)--Biography.

Pioneers.

Genre:

Biographies.

Anecdotes.

Physical Description:

xxvi, 237 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Wilmington, Del. : SR Books, 2002.

Summary:

The Human Tradition in the American West is an engrossing collection of 13 biographies of men and women whose contributions to the development of the American West have largely been left untold in the history books. This volume goes beyond the traditional biographical reader by including the lives that collectively offer racial and gender diversity as well as differing class and sexual orientation backgrounds. Editors Benson Tong and Regan A. Lutz have assembled an impressive group of scholars whose succinct and well-written accounts will give students a more complete understanding of this diverse, dynamic region of the United States.p

Contents:

Introduction: The American West in Its Many Incarnations / Benson Tong, Regan A. Lutz xiii

1 Francisco Javier Clavijero and the Founding of the Literary West / John F. Crossen 1

2 Eliza Hart Spalding: The Missionary Legacy of a Forgotten Feminist / Laurie Winn Carlson 17

3 Maria Amparo Ruiz Burton and The Squatter and the Don / Rosamaria Tanghetti 35

4 Henry De Groot and the Mining West / Gerald Thompson 51

5 William Jefferson Hardin: Wyoming's Nineteenth-Century Black Legislator / Roger D. Hardaway 67

6 Henry Ossian Flipper: African American Western Pioneer / Theodore D. Harris 83

7 Clara True and Female Moral Authority / Margaret D. Jacobs 99

8 Joseph W. Brown: Native American Politician / Paul C. Rosier 117

9 Eugene Pulliam: Municipal Booster / Lara Bickell 137

10 William O. Douglas: The Environmental Justice / Adam M. Sowards 155

11 Margaret Chung and the Dilemma of Bicultural Identity / Benson Tong 171

12 Robert Burnette: A Postwar Lakota Activist / Richmond L. Clow 193

13 Harvey Milk: San Francisco and the Gay Migration / Laura A. Belmonte 209.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0842028609

0842028617

OCLC:

46769311