A New Significance Re-Envisioning the History of the American West

In 1893, Fredrick Jackson Turner published his revolutionary essay, "TheSignificance of the Frontier in American History." A century later, thecountry's most innovative scholars of Western history assembled at a conferenceat Utah State University under the direction of historian Clyde A. Milner. Herethey delivered essays meant to map the exciting new territory opened in recentyears in the history of the West. Gathering the best of these essays, thiscollection aims to produce the first systematic assessment of the new Westernhistoriography. The entries include William Deverell on the significance of theWest in American history; David Gutierrez on Mexican Americans; Susan RhodesNeel on nature and the environment; Gail M. Nomura on Asia and Asian Americans;Anne F. Hyde on Western culture; David Rich Lewis on Native Americans; Susan LeeJohnson on women in the West; and Qunitard Taylor on race and African-Americans.Each essay is accompanied by commentaries written by other top scholars, andeminent historian Allan G. Bogue supplies a penetrating introduction.

Clyde A. Milner II is Professor of History at Utah State University. Editor of the Western Historical Quarterly, he is co-editor of The Oxford History of the American West (1994).