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Volume XL - Number 4
Winter 2009

Abstract: This article revisits three familiar narratives of Mount Rainier history from 1850–1925 to illustrate how Native people negotiated with non-Indians to define the economy of place. Indian knowledge of the mountain served as a commodity of value, and its employ can be seen as productive intellectual labor in evolving colonial contexts.

Eric L. Clements, "Pragmatic Revolutionaries?: Tactics, Ideologies, and the Western Federation of Miners in the Progressive Era"

Abstract: The Western Federation of Miners (WFM), the principal organization involved in creating the Industrial Workers of the World in 1905, disassociated itself from that organization in 1907. This paper analyzes votes of the 1907 WFM convention showing that the federation abandoned the IWW more for tactical than ideological reasons.

Ryan Edgington, "The Safari of the Southwest: Hunting, Science, and the African Oryx on White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico, 1969--2006"

Abstract: In October 1969 the New Mexico Department of Game and Fish released seven African oryx at White Sands Missile Range to encourage leisure hunting in the region. By the mid-1990s, oryx populations had exploded. This essay argues that rather than perceived as a military wasteland the missile range was recast as a consumer’s landscape creating environmental changes that transcended missile testing.

Carol Lynn McKibben, Field Notes "The Seaside History Project: Practicing Public History in a Minority-Majority City "

Abstract: This essay explores the challenges and opportunities of a public history project conducted in 2006 in Seaside, California, a former military town and minority-majority city attached to Fort Ord. The project produced two books about Seaside and created a usable archive by 2009.

Coming Soon:

Sherry L. Smith, "Reconciliation and Restitution in the American West"

Ramón A. Gutiérrez and Elliott Young, "Transnationalizing Borderlands History"

Todd Holmes, “The Economic Roots of Reaganism: Corporate Conservatives, Political Economy, and the United Farm Workers Movement, 1965–1970”

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