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ISSN: 0043-3810
E-ISSN: 1939-8603
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Volume
XLIII - Number 4
Winter 2012
Articles:
Benjamin
H. Johnson
Editor's Introduction to David J. Weber's "Señor
Escudero Goes to Washington"
David J. Weber
"Señor Escudero Goes to Washington: Deplomacy, Indians,
and the Santa Fe Trade"
Bio: David J.
Weber was the Robert and Nancy Dedman Chair in History at Southern
Methodist University and the director of the William P. Clements
Center for Southwest Studies. He was grateful to Mercedes de Vega
Armijo of the Acervo Histórico Diplomático, Secretaría
de Relaciones Exteriores in Mexico City, for facilitating his research
in that archive.
Adrienne
Rose Johnson
"Romancing the Dude Ranch, 1926–1947"
Abstract: Early
twentieth-century dude ranches provided upper-class eastern men
and women beset by social change with the living memorialization
of an imagined past—a frontier fantasy of patriarchal family
life. This strategically anachronistic landscape emboldened dudes
to transgress the restraints of gender and class, most noticeably
through the dudine-wrangler romance.
Miles Powell
"Divided Waters: Heiltsuk Spatial Management of Herring Fisheries
and the Politics of Native Sovereignty"
Abstract: Through
kinship claims, Heiltsuks and other coastal natives established
a system of marine space that facilitated effective fisheries management.
After overriding Aboriginal claims on the basis of open access,
the Canadian Department of Fisheries and Oceans conceded that efficacious
regulation required exclusive harvest zones. Nonetheless, courts
continued to disregard Heiltsuk spatial claims when assessing fishing
rights.
Andrew R. Graybill
FIELD NOTES
"Entry Points
and Trailheads: Pondering the History and Future of the William
P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies"
Abstract: Since
its establishment in the fall of 1996, the William P. Clements Center
for Southwest Studies at Southern Methodist University in Dallas,
Texas, has served as a key incubator of first-rate scholarship on
Texas and the transnational U.S.-Mexico borderlands. Although its
visionary founding director, David J. Weber, died in August 2010
(his final article appears in this issue of Western Historical Quarterly),
the core mission of the center remains the same. As Weber’s
successor, I describe the annual operations of the Clements Center
while touching on some of my own ideas about the future of this
vital academic institute.
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Book
Reviews:
- Fiege, The Republic of Nature, Jared Farmer
- Righter, Windfall, Shelley Brooks
- Courtwright, Prairie Fire, Jay Antle
- Price, The Orphaned Land, Ryan Edgington
- Mengak, Reshaping Our National Parks and Their Guardians,
John Freemuth
- Huntley, The Making of Yosemite, W. R. Swagerty
- Davies, Saving San Francisco, Wendy Rouse
- Brosnan and Scott, eds., City Dreams, Country Schemes,
Elizabeth Carney
- Francaviglia, Go East, Young Man, Erik Altenbernd
- Chung, In Pursuit of Gold, Grace Peña Delgado
- Kim, The Quest for Statehood, Eric Boime
- Lyon, Prisons and Patriots, Sarah M. Griffith
- Behnken, ed., The Struggle in Black and Brown, Oliver
A. Rosales
- Sarathy, Pineros, Erik Loomis
- Tutino, ed., Mexico and Mexicans in the Making of the United
States, Gilbert Gonzalez
- Kiser, Turmoil on the Rio Grande, Michael M. Brescia
- De León, ed., War along the Border, Nancy Aguirre
- Carey and Marak, eds., Smugglers, Brothels, and Twine,
Jason Oliver Chang
- Baldwin, Cameron, and Kobayashi, eds., Rethinking the Great
White North, Frances Henry
- Woo, Ghost Dancing with Colonialism, Bruce Granville
Miller
- Tovías, Colonialism on the Prairies, Christopher
L. Miller
- Youngdahl, Working on the Railroad, Walking in Beauty,
Kurt Peters
- Haas, Pablo Tac, Indigenous Scholar, Louise Pubols
- Pascoe, Helen Ring Robinson, Rebecca J. Mead
- Givens and Grow, Parley P. Pratt, Mario S. De Pillis,
Sr.
- Kraft, Ned Wynkoop and the Lonely Road from Sand Creek,
Anthony R. McGinnis
- Dobak, Freedom by the Sword, Stan “Tex”
Banash
- Ballard, Commander and Builder of Western Forts, Douglas
C. McChristian
- Pate, Arsenal of Defense, Thomas Allen
- Ariens, Lone Star Law, Jean A. Stuntz
- Lauck, Miller, and Simmons, eds., The Plains Political Tradition,
R. Alton Lee
- Kelm, A Wilder West, Michael Allen
- Danisi, Uncovering the Truth about Meriwether Lewis,
Sheri Bartlett Browne
- Reid, Forging a Fur Empire, John D. Barton
- LaSalle, Emigrants on the Overland Trail, Will Bagley
- James, Virginia City, Leah S. Glaser
- Dixon, Schablitsky, and Novak, eds., An Archaeology of Desperation
and Spude, Mills, Gurcke, and Sprague, eds., Eldorado!,
Laura L. Scheiber
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Coming Soon:
Articles:
Albert L. Hurtado,
"Bolton and Turner: The Borderlands and American Exceptionalism"
Abstract: Frederick
Jackson Turner and Herbert Eugene Bolton are regarded as the founders
of the field of western history. Bolton was a student of Turner’s,
and they corresponded until Turner died. While Bolton maintained
that he was Turner’s disciple, his work posed a challenge
to Turner’s ideas about the frontier. Yet Turner did not address
or incorporate Bolton’s work in his own, and Bolton did not
seem to recognize that he had challenged Turner. This essay explores
their complex relationship.
Susan Schulten, "The Civil War and the Origins of
the Colorado Territory"
Abstract: We commonly
acknowledge that the extension of slavery into the West was a primary
cause of the sectional crisis. Yet we tend to treat these two mid-nineteenth-century
narratives as geographically distinct: a battle over slavery engulfs
the East while mineral rushes transform the West. Here the creation
of the Colorado Territory is framed within both these developments
as well as in the shifting conception of American geography in the
1850s.
Fredy González, "Chinese Dragon and Eagle of
Anáhuac: The Local, National, and International Implications
of the Ensenada Anti-Chinese Campaign of 1934"
Abstract: This
article reexamines the anti-Chinese movement in Mexico through a
discussion of a failed anti-Chinese campaign in Baja California.
It argues that Chinese migrants organized in the face of Sinophobic
aggression and that the national and international implications
of anti-Chinese violence forced diplomats and government officials
to grapple with Chinese demands for equal treatment in the U.S.-Mexico
borderlands.
Comprehensive
List of WHQ Articles, 1970 to the present
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