Bibliography of the Western United States

Surveys
  • Beck, Warren A. and Ynez D. Haase. Historical Atlas of the American West (University of Oklahoma Press, 1989). online
  • Brands, H.W. Dreams of El Dorado: A History of the American West ((Basic Books, 2019)
  • Deutsch, Sarah. Making a Modern U.S. West: The Contested Terrain of a Region and Its Borders 1898–1940. (U of Nebraska Press, 2022).
  • Deverell, William, ed. A Companion to the American West. (Wiley-Blackwell, 2004).
  • Etulain, Richard W. Beyond the Missouri: The Story of the American West. (U of New Mexico Press, 2006). online
  • Findlay, John M. The Mobilized American West, 1940–2000 (U of Nebraska Press, 2023), comprehensive history online review of this book
  • Hine, Robert V., and John Mack Faragher. The American West: A New Interpretive History. (Yale University Press [UP], 2000).
  • Lamar, Howard R., ed. The New Encyclopedia of the American West. (Yale UP, 1998). expanded 2nd edition with massive coverage of all aspects by experts
    • Lamar, Howard R., ed. The Reader's Encyclopedia of the American West. (Crowell, 1977); 2400 short articles by 200 experts; online
  • Limerick, Patricia. Legacy of Conquest: The Unbroken Past Of The American West (WW Norton, 1987).
  • Malone, Michael P., and Richard W. Etulain. The American West: A Twentieth-Century History. (U of Nebraska Press, 1989).
  • Milner II, Clyde A. et al. eds. The Oxford History of the American West. (Oxford UP, 1994), long essays by scholars; online
  • Milner II, Clyde A. et al. eds. Major Problems in the History of the American West (2nd ed. 1997), excerpts from primary sources and scholarly studies.
  • Phillips, C.; Axelrod, A. (1996). Encyclopedia of the American West. Simon & Schuster/Macmillan. ISBN 978-0-02-897497-2.
  • Pomeroy, Earl. The Pacific Slope: A History of California, Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Utah, and Nevada. (U of Washington Press, 1973). online
  • Utley, Robert M. The Story of The West: A History of the American West and Its People. (Penguin Books, 2003).
  • White, Richard. A New History of the American West: 'It's Your Misfortune and None of My Own.' (U of Oklahoma Press, 1991), a major scholarly survey, focused on the post-1890 far west.
  • Wishart, David J. Encyclopedia of the Great Plains (U of Nebraska Press, 2004) online
  • Wrobel, David M. America's West: A History, 1890–1950 (Cambridge UP, 2017) online

Culture
Further information: Western fiction and Western film
  • Boatright, Mody C. "The Formula in Cowboy Fiction and Drama." Western Folklore (1969): 136–145. in JSTOR
  • Davis, David B. "Ten-Gallon Hero." American Quarterly (1954) 6#2 pp: 111–125. in JSTOR
  • Day, Kirsten. Cowboy Classics: The Roots of the American Western in the Epic Tradition (Edinburgh UP, 2016).
  • Dinan, John A. The Pulp Western: A Popular History of the Western Fiction Magazine in America (Borgo Press, 1983).
  • Durham, Philip. "The Cowboy and the Myth Makers." Journal of Popular Culture (1967) 1#1 pp: 58–62.
  • Frye, Steven, ed. The Cambridge Companion to Literature of the American West (Cambridge UP, 2016)
  • Jones, Daryl (c. 1978). The dime novel western. Bowling Green, Ohio: Popular Press, Bowling Green State University. ISBN 0879720980.
  • Lusted, David. The Western. (Pearson/Longman, 2003), on films
  • MacDonald, J. Fred. Who Shot the Sheriff?: The Rise and Fall of the Television Western (Praeger, 1987).
  • McVeigh, Stephen. The American Western (Edinburgh UP, 2007.)
  • Marsden, Michael T. "The Popular Western Novel as a Cultural Artifact." Arizona and the West (1978): 203–214. online
  • Rollins, Peter C. and John E. O'Connor, eds. Hollywood's West: The American frontier in film, television and history (UP of Kentucky, 2006) online
  • Simmon, Scott. The Invention of the Western Film: A Cultural History of the Genre's First Half Century (Cambridge UP, 2003)
  • Witschi, Nicolas S. ed. A Companion to the Literature and Culture of the American West. (2011) excerpt

Economy
  • Fite, Gilbert C. The Farmer's Frontier, 1865–1900. (Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1966).
  • Graham, Don. Kings of Texas: The 150-Year Saga of an American Ranching Empire. (John Wiley and Sons, 2003). online
  • Nash, Gerald D. A.P. Giannini and the Bank of America. (U of Oklahoma Press, 1992), it was originally based in California
  • Nash, Gerald D. The Federal Landscape: An Economic History of the Twentieth-Century West. (U of Arizona Press. 1999). online
  • O'Mara, Margaret. The Code: Silicon Valley and the Remaking of America. (Penguin Press, 2019).
  • Robbins, William G. Colony and Empire: The Capitalist Transformation of the American West. (U Press of Kansas, 1994).
  • Rundell Jr., Walter. Oil in West Texas and New Mexico: A Pictorial History of the Permian Basin. (Texas A & M UP, 1982) online
  • Schwantes, Carlos Arnaldo. Going Places: Transportation Redefines the Twentieth-Century West. (Indiana UP, 2003). online
  • White, Richard. Railroaded: The Transcontinentals and the Making of Modern America (W.W. Norton, 2011)

Environment
Further information: Environmental history of the United States § Further reading
  • Abbey, Edward. Desert Solitaire : A Season in the Wilderness. (McGraw-Hill, 1968).
  • Brinkley, Douglas. The Wilderness Warrior: Theodore Roosevelt and the Crusade for America (Harper, 2009)
  • Castaneda, Christopher J., and Lee M. A. Simpson, eds. River city and valley life: an environmental history of the Sacramento region (U of Pittsburgh Press, 2013) in California; online
  • Cawley, R. McGreggor. Federal Land, Western Anger: The Sagebrush Rebellion and Environmental Politics (1993), on conservatives
  • Cronon, William. Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West (W.W. Norton, 1991)
  • Cunfer, Geoff, and Bill Waiser, eds. Bison and people on the North American Great Plains: A deep environmental history (Texas A&M University Press, 2016) online.
  • Dant, Sara. Losing Eden: An Environmental History of the American West. (U of Nebraska Press, 2023). online, also see online book review
  • Dobie, J. Frank. The Longhorns. (Little, Brown, 1941).
  • Flores, Dan. The natural west: Environmental history in the Great Plains and Rocky Mountains (U of Oklahoma Press, 2003) online.
  • Fradkin, Philip. A River No More: The Colorado River and the West (1981)
  • Frehner, Brian, and Kathleen A. Brosnan, eds. The Greater Plains: Rethinking a Region's Environmental Histories (U of Nebraska Press, 2021) online.
  • Harvey, Mark W. T. "Echo Park, Glen Canyon, and the postwar wilderness movement." Pacific Historical Review (1991): 43–67. online Colorado River region
  • Hollon, W. Eugene. The Great American Desert, Then and Now. (U of Nebraska Press, 1975).
  • Huggard, Christopher, and Arthur R. Gómez. Forests under Fire: A Century of Ecosystem Mismanagement in the Southwest. (U of Arizona Press, 2001).
  • Hundley Jr., Norris. Water and the West: The Colorado River Compact and the Politics of Water in the American West. (2nd ed. U of California Press, 2009).
  • Logan, Michael F. Desert Cities: The Environmental History of Phoenix and Tucson. (U of Pittsburgh Press, 2006).
  • Lowitt, Richard. The New Deal and the West (Indiana UP, 1984) online
  • Pisani, Donald J. Water, Land, and Law in the West: The Limits of Public Policy, 1850-1920. (UP of Kansas, 1996).
  • Reisner, Marc. Cadillac desert: The American West and its disappearing water (Penguin, 1993) says the villain was the federal Bureau of Reclamation see ; also see online copy.
  • Stegner, Wallace. The American West As Living Space. (U of Michigan Press, 1987).
  • Sturgeon, Stephen Craig. The politics of western water: the congressional career of Wayne Aspinall (U of Arizona Press, 2002).
  • Vogel, David. California greenin': How the Golden State became an environmental leader (Princeton UP, 2019).
  • White, Richard. The Organic Machine: The Remaking of the Columbia River. (Hill and Wang, 1995).
  • Wild, Peter. Pioneer Conservationists of Western America (1979) online
  • Worster, Donald. Under Western Skies: Nature and History in the American West (Oxford UP, 1992) online
  • Worster, Donald. Dust Bowl: The Southern Plains in the 1930s. (Oxford UP, 1979).
  • Worster, Donald. Rivers of Empire: Water, Aridity, and the Growth of the American West. (Pantheon Books, 1987).

Frontier
Main article: Bibliography of the American frontier
  • Billington, Ray Allen and Martin Ridge. Westward Expansion: A History of the American Frontier. Abridged ed. (U of New Mexico Press, 2001). online
  • Billington, Ray Allen. The Far Western Frontier, 1830–1860. (Harper and Row, 1959)
  • Davis, William C. The American Frontier: Pioneers, Settlers, & Cowboys, 1800–1899. (U of Oklahoma Press, 1999). online
  • Hawgood, John A. America's Western Frontiers: The Exploration and Settlement of the Trans-Mississippi West. (Knopf, 1969).
  • Hyde, Anne F. Empires, Nations, and Families: A History of the North American West, 1800–1860. (U of Nebraska Press, 2011).
  • Paxson, Frederic Logan. History of the American frontier, 1763–1893. (Houghton Mifflin, 1924); An old survey by leading authority; Pulitzer Prize. online
  • Paxson, Frederic Logan. The Last American Frontier. (Macmillan, 1910). online
  • Turner, Frederick Jackson. The Frontier in American History. (Holt, 1920)
  • West, Elliott. Continental Reckoning: The American West in the Age of Expansion. (U of Nebraska Press, 2023). online

Gender and race
  • Allmendinger, Blake. Imagining the African American West (U of Nebraska Press, 2005). online
  • Bernardin, Susan, ed. The Routledge Companion to Gender and the American West (2022) excerpt
  • Cronon, William, et al. “Women and the West: Rethinking the Western History Survey Course.” Western Historical Quarterly 17#3 (1986), pp. 269–90 online
  • Farrington, Brenda Gail, and Gordon Morris Bakken, eds. Encyclopedia of Women in the American West (SAGE, 2003)
  • Frye, Steven, ed. The Cambridge Companion to Literature of the American West (Cambridge UP, 2016) chapters 11-15 cover Native American; Chicana/o; Asian American; and African American topics.
  • Gutierrez, David G. et al. "Significant to Whom?: Mexican Americans and the History of the American West" in A New Significance: Re-Envisioning the History of the American West ed. by Clyde A. Milner. (1996) pp.67-105.
  • Johnson, Michael K. Hoo-Doo cowboys and bronze buckaroos: Conceptions of the African American West (UP of Mississippi, 2014), focus on popular culture; online.
  • Ling, Huping, and Allan W. Austin. Asian American History and Culture: An Encyclopedia (Routledge, 2015) contents.
  • Meier, Matt S., and Margo Gutiérrez. The Mexican American experience: an encyclopedia (Greenwood, 2003). online
  • Okihiro, Gary Y. ed. The Columbia Guide to Asian American History (Columbia UP, 2001) online
  • Stauffer, Helen Winter, and Susan J. Rosowski, eds. Women and western American literature (Whitston, 1982)
  • White, Richard. "Race relations in the American West." American Quarterly 38.3 (1986): 396-416. online
  • Zhao, Xiaojian and Edward J.W. Park, eds. Asian Americans: An Encyclopedia of Social, Cultural, Economic, and Political History (3 vol. Greenwood, 2013)

Historiography
  • August, Jack L. "The Future of Western History: The Third Wave.” Journal of Arizona History 27#2 (1986), pp. 229–44. online
  • Billington, Ray Allen. America's Frontier Heritage. (U of New Mexico Press, 1984). online
  • Cronon, William, George A. Miles, and Jay Gitlin, eds. Under an open sky: rethinking America's Western past (WW Norton & Company, 1993) 14 topical essays by experts.
  • Etulain, Richard W. Telling Western Stories: From Buffalo Bill to Larry McMurtry. (U of New Mexico Press, 1999).
  • Etulain, Richard W. The American West and Its Interpreters. (U of New Mexico Press, 2023).
  • Etulain, Richard W. Writing Western History: Essays On Major Western Historians (U of Nevada Press, 2002).
  • Faragher, John Mack, ed. Rereading Frederick Jackson Turner: The Significance of the Frontier in American History and Other Essays. (Holt, 1994).
  • Frantz, Joe B. Aspects of the American West: Three Essays. (Texas A&M UP, 1976).
  • Gressley, Gene. "Whither Western American History? Speculations on a Direction," Pacific Historical Review 53, no. 4 (1984): 483–501.
  • Malone, Michael P. "Beyond the Last Frontier: Toward a New Approach to Western American History." The Western Historical Quarterly 20, no. 4 (1989): 409–27.
  • Malone, Michael P., ed. Historians and the American West. (U of Nebraska Press, 1983)
  • Milner, Clyde A. ed. A New Significance: Re-Envisioning the History of the American West () 15 essays by experts
  • Nash, Gerald D. Creating the West: Historical Interpretations, 1890–1990. (U of New Mexico Press, 1991).
  • Nash, Gerald D., and Richard W. Etulain. The Twentieth-Century West: Historical Interpretations. (U of New Mexico Press, 1989).
  • Norris Jr., Hundley, and John A. Schutz, ed. The American West: Frontier and Region--Interpretations by John Walton Caughey. (Ward Ritchie Press, 1969).
  • Pomeroy, Earl. "Toward a Reorientation of Western History: Continuity and Environment." Mississippi Valley Historical Review 41#4 (1955): 579–600. online
  • Rensink, Brenden W., ed. The North American West in the Twenty-First Century.(U of Nebraska Press, 2022.
  • Ridge, Martin. "The Life of an Idea: The Significance of Frederick Jackson Turner’s Frontier Thesis." Montana: The Magazine of Western History 41, no. 1 (1991): 2–13.
  • Sonnichsen, C. L. The Ambidextrous Historian: Historical Writers and Writing in the American West. (U of Oklahoma Press, 1981).
  • Stegner, Wallace and Richard W. Etulain. Stegner: Conversations on History and Literature. (U of Utah Press, 1983).
  • Turner, Frederick Jackson. The Frontier in American History. (Holt, 1920)

Labor
  • Andrews, Thomas G. Killing for Coal: America’s Deadliest Labor War. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2008.
  • Brykit, James W. Forging the Copper Collar: Arizona's Labor-Management War of 1901-1921. Tucson, University of Arizona Press, 1982.
  • Lukas, J. Anthony. Big Trouble: A Murder in a Small Western Town Sets Off a Struggle for the Soul of America. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1997.
  • Schwantes, Carlos Arnaldo. Radical Heritage: Labor, Socialism, and Reform in Washington and British Columbia, 1885-1917. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1979.

Military history
  • Amundson, Michael A. Yellowcake Towns : Uranium Mining Communities in the American West. Boulder: University Press of Colorado, 2002.
  • Bolton, Roger E. Defense Purchases and Regional Growth. Washington, D.C. 1966.
  • Brilliant, Mark and David M. Kennedy, eds. World War II and the West It Wrought. Redwood City, CA: Stanford University Press. 2020. excerpt
  • Clayton, James L. "Impact of the Cold War on the Economies of California and Utah." Pacific Historical Review, 36 (1967): 449–473.
  • Findlay, John M. and Hevley, Bruce W. Atomic Frontier Days : Hanford and the American West. Center for the Study of the Pacific Northwest in Association with Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2011.
  • Heefner, Gretchen. The Missile Next Door: The Minuteman in the American Heartland. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2012.
  • Hevly, Bruce W. and John M. Findlay, ed. The Atomic West. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1998.
  • Hull, McAllister, with Amy Bianco. Rider of the Pale Horse: A Memoir of Los Alamos and Beyond. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2005.
  • Hunner, Jon. J. Robert Oppenheimer, the Cold War, and the Atomic West. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2009.
  • Larson, T.A. Wyoming's War Years, 1941–1945. Laramie: University of Wyoming, 1954.
  • Lotchin, Roger. Japanese American Relocation in World War II: A Reconsideration. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2018.
  • Lotchin, Roger W. "The Metropolitan-Military Complex in Comparative Perspective: San Francisco, Los Angeles, and San Diego, 1919–1941." Journal of the West, 20 (July 1979): 19–30.
  • Martini, Edwin A. Proving Grounds: Militarized Landscapes, Weapons Testing, and the Environmental Impact of U.S. Bases. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2015.
  • Nash, Gerald D. The American West Transformed: The Impact of the Second World War. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1985.
  • Nash, Gerald D. World War II and the West: Reshaping the Economy. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press. 1990.
  • Rosier, Paul C. "'They Are Ancestral Homelands': Race, Place, and Politics in Cold War Native America, 1945-1961." The Journal of American History 92, no. 4 (2006): 1300–26.
  • Szasz, Ferenc Morton. The Day the Sun Rose Twice: The Story of the Trinity Site Nuclear Explosion, July 16, 1945. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1984.

Mythic West
  • Athearn, Robert G.The Mythic West in Twentieth-Century America. (UP of Kansas, 1986).
  • Etulain, Richard W. Re-Imagining the Modern American West: A Century of Fiction, History, and Art. (U of Arizona Press. 1996).
  • Gibson, Arrell M. The Santa Fe and Taos Colonies: Age of the Muses, 1900–1942. (U of New Mexico Press, 1988).
  • Lehan, Richard. Quest West: American Intellectual and Cultural Transformations. (Louisiana State UP, 2014).
  • Savage Jr., William W. The Cowboy Hero: His Image in American History and Culture. (U of Oklahoma Press, 1979).
  • Slotkin, Richard. Regeneration through violence: The mythology of the American frontier, 1600-1860 (U of Oklahoma Press, 1973) online.
  • Slotkin, Richard. The fatal environment: The myth of the frontier in the age of industrialization, 1800-1890 (U of Oklahoma Press, 1985) online.
  • Slotkin, Richard. Gunfighter nation: The myth of the frontier in twentieth-century America (U of Oklahoma Press, 1992). online; also see online review of this book
  • Smith, Henry Nash. Virgin Land: The American West as Symbol and Myth (Harvard UP, 1950).

Native Americans
  • Brown, Dee. Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West. (Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1970).
  • Debo, Angie. And Still the Waters Run: The Betrayal of the Five Civilized Tribes. (Princeton UP, 1968).
  • Deloria Jr. Vine, and Clifford M. Lytle. American Indians, American Justice. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1983.
  • Iverson, Peter. When Indians Became Cowboys: Native Peoples and Cattle Ranching in the American West. (U of Oklahoma Press, 1994).
  • Miles, George. "To Hear and Old Voice: Rediscovering Native Americans in American History.” in William Cronon et al. eds. Under an Open Sky: Rethinking America's Western Past (1992) pp.52–70.
  • Parman, Donald Lee. Indians and the American West in the Twentieth Century.(Indiana UP, 1994).

Politics
  • Iverson, Peter. Barry Goldwater: Native Arizonan. (U of Oklahoma Press, 1997).
  • Lowitt, Richard. The New Deal and the West. (Indiana UP, 1984) online
  • Rothman, Hal K. LBJ's Texas White House: 'Our Heart's Home.' (Texas A&M UP, 2001).
  • Smith, Thomas G. Stewart L. Udall: Steward of the Land. ( U of New Mexico Press, 2017).
  • Stratton, David H. Tempest Over Teapot Dome: The Story of Albert B. Fall. (U of Oklahoma Press, 1998).
  • Young, Nancy Beck. Two Suns of the Southwest: Lyndon Johnson, Barry Goldwater, and the 1964 Battle between Liberalism and Conservatism. (UP of Kansas, 2019).

Religion
  • Avella, Steven M. "Catholicism in the Twentieth-Century American West: The Next Frontier." The Catholic Historical Review 97, no. 2 (2011): 219–49.
  • Botham, Fay, and Sara M. Patterson, eds. Race, Religion, Region: Landscapes of Encounter in the American West (U of Arizona Press, 2006).
  • Kerstetter, Todd M. Inspiration and Innovation: Religion in the American West (John Wiley & Sons, 2015). online
  • Killen, Patricia O'Connell, and Mark Silk, eds. Religion and public life in the Pacific Northwest: The none zone (Rowman Altamira, 2004).
  • Prince, Gregory A. Leonard Arrington and the Writing of Mormon History. (U of Utah Press, 2016).
  • Quinn, D. Michael. "Religion in the American West" in William Cronon, et al. eds. Under an open sky: rethinking America's Western past (1993) pp. 145–166.
  • Roof, Wade Clark. "Pluralism as a culture: Religion and civility in Southern California." The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 612.1 (2007): 82-99.
  • Szasz, Ferenc Morton. Religion in the modern American West (U of Arizona Press, 2002).
  • Szasz, Ferenc Morton. The Protestant Clergy in the Great Plains and Mountain West, 1865-1915 (U of Nebraska Press, 2004). online
  • Weiser-Alexander, Kathy. "Mormons in the American West" Legends of America (2024) online

Tourism
  • Barber, Alicia. Reno’s Big Gamble: Image and Reputation in the Biggest Little City. (UP of Kansas. 2008).
  • Cottam, Erica. Hubbell Trading Post: Trade, Tourism, and the Navajo Southwest. (U of Oklahoma Press, 2015).
  • Pomeroy, Earl. In Search of the Golden West: The Tourist in Western America. (Knopf, 1957).
  • Rothman, Hal K. Devil's Bargains: Tourism and the Twentieth-Century American West. (U of Kansas Press, 1998.
  • Rugh, Susan Sessions. "Branding Utah: Industrial Tourism in the Postwar American West." Western Historical Quarterly 37#4 (2006): 445–472.
  • Wrobel, David. Promised Lands: Promotion, Memory, and the Creation of the American West. (UP of Kansas, 2002.

Urban West
  • Abbott, Carl (2008). How Cities Won the West: Four Centuries of Urban Change in Western North America. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press. ISBN 978-0-8263-3312-4.
  • Cline, Platt. Mountain Town: Flagstaff's First Century. (Flagstaff, Northland Publishing, 1994).
  • Findlay, John M. Magic Lands: Western Cityscapes and American Culture After 1940. (U of California Press, 1992).
  • Gómez, Arthur R. Quest for the Golden Circle: The Four Corners and the Metropolitan West, 1945-1970. (UP of New Mexico, 1994).
  • Leonard, Stephen J., and Thomas J. Noel. Denver: Mining Camp to Metropolis. (UP of Colorado, 1990).
  • Luckingham, Bradford. The Urban Southwest: A Profile History of Albuquerque, El Paso, Phoenix, and Tucson. (Texas Western Press, 1982).
  • Nash, Gerald D. The American West in the Twentieth Century – A Short History of an Urban Oasis. (Prentice Hall, 1973).
  • Rothman, Hal. Neon Metropolis: How Las Vegas Started the Twenty-First Century. (Routledge, 2003).
  • Sonnichsen, C.L. Tucson: The Life and Times of an American City. (U of Oklahoma Press, 1982).
  • Stratten, David H., ed. Spokane and the Inland Empire: An Interior Pacific Northwest Anthology. (2nd ed. Washington State UP, 2007).
  • VanderMeer, Philip. Desert Visions and the Making of Phoenix, 1860–2009 (2010)
  • Wilson, Chris. The Myth of Santa Fe: Creating a Modern Regional Tradition. (U of New Mexico Press, 1997).
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