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Tables of Contents for Writing Western History
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Foreword to the New Edition
ix
Glenda Riley
Acknowledgments
xvii
Introduction. The Rise of Western Historiography
1
18
Richard W. Etulain
I PRECURSORS TO FREDERICK JACKSON TURNER
Josiah Royce: The West as Community
19
24
Robert V. Hine
Hubert Howe Bancroft: First Western Regionalist
43
30
Charles S. Peterson
II FREDERICK JACKSON TURNER AND CLASSIC WESTERN HISTORIANS
Turner's First Stand: The Significance of Significance in American History
73
30
William Cronon
Frederick Jackson Turner and Western Regionalism
103
34
Michael C. Steiner
After Turner: The Western Historiography of Frederic Logan Paxson
137
30
Richard W. Etulain
Walter Prescott Webb and the Search for the West
167
26
Elliott West
Herbert Eugene Bolton: The Making of a Western Historian
193
22
Donald E. Worcester
James C. Malin: A Voice from the Grassland
215
32
Allan G. Bogue
III RECENT WESTERN HISTORIANS
Henry Nash Smith's Myth of the West
247
30
Lee Clark Mitchell
Persistent Traits and the Persistent Historian: The American Frontier and Ray Allen Billington
277
34
Patricia Nelson Limerick
Earl Pomeroy and the Reorientation of Western American History
311
24
Michael P. Malone
Conclusion. Visions and Revisions: Recent Interpretations of the American West
335
24
Richard W. Etulain
Contributors
359
4
Index
363