Richard W. Etulain

Richard W. Etulain is a professor emeritus of history at the University of New Mexico, where he also edited the New Mexico Historical Review (1979-1985 and 1991) and directed the Center for the American West (1989-2001). Etulain served as president at both the Western Literature and Western History associations. He is the author or editor of more than sixty books on the history and cultures of the American West.

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Telling Western Stories

From Buffalo Bill to Larry McMurtry

University of New Mexico Press

Narrates the evolution of the western story from the Civil War to the present, focusing on books, movies, and people.

  • Copyright year: 1999
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New Mexican Lives

Profiles and Historical Stories

University of New Mexico Press

This book will appeal to anyone interested in knowing more about how a fascinating mix of people of various cultures have molded New Mexico's history.

  • Copyright year: 2002
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Beyond the Missouri

The Story of the American West

University of New Mexico Press

A narrative history of the many peoples and cultures of the American West from prehistory to the twenty-first century.

  • Copyright year: 2006
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Western Lives

A Biographical History of the American West

University of New Mexico Press

The life stories of many individuals are woven together to tell the history of the American West from the earliest days of westward expansion to the twentieth century.

  • Copyright year: 2004
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Re-imagining the Modern American West

A Century of Fiction, History, and Art

The University of Arizona Press

Winner of the Caughey Western History Prize (Western History Association) and Western Heritage Wrangler Award for Outstanding Nonfiction Book (National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum), this is first thorough overview of novelists, historians, and artists of the modern American West.

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Charlie Siringo's West

An Interpretive Biography

University of New Mexico Press

The colorful life of Charlie Siringo and the image of the American West he helped to create.

  • Copyright year: 2005
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The American West and Its Interpreters

Essays on Literary History and Historiography

University of New Mexico Press
  • Copyright year: 2023
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Honey in the Horn

Oregon State University Press

Set in Oregon in the early years of the twentieth century, H. L. Davis’s Honey in the Horn chronicles the struggles faced by homesteaders as they attempted to settle down and eke out subsistence from a still-wild land. With sly humor and keenly observed detail, Davis pays homage to the indomitable character of Oregon’s restless people and dramatic landscapes without romanticizing or burnishing the myths.

An essential book for all serious readers of Northwest literature, this classic coming-of-age novel has been called the “Huckleberry Finn of the West.” It is the only Oregon book that has ever won a Pulitzer Prize for fiction. With a new introduction by Richard W. Etulain, this path-breaking work from one of Oregon’s premier authors is once again available for a new generation to enjoy.

  • Copyright year: 2015
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The Saga of Billy the Kid

University of New Mexico Press

First published in 1926, this dramatic biography forever installed outlaw Billy the Kid in the pantheon of mythic heroes from the Old West.

  • Copyright year: 1999
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Death Comes for the Archbishop

A Classic Novel of New Mexico

By Willa Cather; Introduction by Richard W. Etulain
University of New Mexico Press
  • Copyright year: 2024
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