Hal K. Rothman

Hal K. Rothman (1958-2007) was professor of history, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, and a leading historian of the American West.

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Playing the Odds

Las Vegas and the Modern West

University of New Mexico Press

"Hal Rothman is both the greatest Western historian of his generation and an H. L. Mencken in cowboy boots."--Mike Davis, author of Planet of Slums and Buda's Wagon

  • Copyright year: 2007
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The Culture of Tourism, The Tourism of Culture

Selling the Past to the Present in the American Southwest

Edited by Hal K. Rothman
University of New Mexico Press

The Southwest has long been an American dreamscape, and inherently this has had its affect on the land and its people. Among other topics discussed in the package of essays is how the area is transformed by tourism and how native people gain autonomy by presenting their experiences and cultures to tourists.

  • Copyright year: 2003
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