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Volume XXXIX - Number 1
Spring 2008

Martha C. Knack, "The Saga of Tim Hooper's Homestead: Non-reservation Shoshone Indian Land Title in Nevada"

Abstract: Native American history often recounts Indian land loss, but rarely Native acquisition of title. Little-known public domain allotments and Indian homesteads were difficult to obtain. The lengthy efforts of one Nevada Shoshone family to gain off-reservation land illustrate some of the reasons why Indians were so noticeably unsuccessful in controlling land outside reservations.

Nicolaas Mink, "A (Napoleon) Dynamite Identity: Rural Idaho, the Politics of Place, and the Creation of a New Western Film

Abstract: This essay examines the 2004 comedy Napoleon Dynamite, analyzing its impact on national popular culture and rural identity in the American West, particularly in the town of Preston, Idaho, where the movie was filmed. As part coming-of-age film, part comedy, and part critique of real life, Napoleon Dynamite fashioned a unique and contested image of the West that helps to expose the underlying anxieties, stereotypes, assumptions, and hopes that still underscore much of the fraught relationship between the rural West and mainstream America.

Laura R. Barraclough, "Rural Urbanism: Producing Western Heritage and the Racial Geography of Postwar Los Angeles"

Abstract: This article examines how the local production of Westerns shaped the postwar racial geography of Los Angeles’s suburban San Fernando Valley. White suburban activists drew upon the ideologies about rural land that Westerns promoted and forged political coalitions with the mythmakers who crafted them to secure privileged land-use policies, resist residential integration, and justify white flight.

Jo Tice Bloom, Field Notes, "Hello Joe, You Old Buffalo: Skulls, Brand Books, and Westerners"

Abstract: For more than sixty years, Westerners have been researching, writing, sharing, and having fun with the history of the American West. Westerners were among the founders of the Western History Association. This article discusses Westerners and Westerners International, the umbrella organization.

Jon Lauck, "The Old Roots of the New West: Howard Lamar and the Intellectual Origins of Dakota Territory"

Janne Lahti, "Colonized Labor: Apaches and Pawnees as Army Workers"

Benjamin Madley, "California's Yuki Indians: Defining Genocide in Native American History"

John Herbert and Karen Estlund, Field Notes, "Creating Citizen Historians"

Comprehensive List of WHQ Articles, 1970 to the present

2000 - present, vols. XXXI -

1990 - 1999, vols. XXI - XXX

1980 - 1989, vols. XI - XX

1970 - 1979, vols. I - X