Western lands, western voices : essays on public history in the American West /
edited by Gregory E. Smoak.
- 1 online resource
Includes bibliographies and index.
Foreword : a legacy of publicly engaged scholarship / Introduction : putting history to work in the American West / Posing the question : what makes public history public? / Taking a public turn : public history as public service in the American West / Rothman's West : the education of a western public intellectual / Mythic spaces, real places : thoughts on administrative history in the western national parks / Finding and building community on the Manito Trail / "Working on the dark side" : public land management and tribal relations / The adjudication of Three Tribes' Water Rights / "This is our home; this is our land" : memory, visual sovereignty, and museum exhibition on the Klamath River Basin / Placemaking in public : building a Native American studies program on the indigenous Columbia Plateau / Scholarship, the public, and the challenge of local history / Building bridges / Gregory C. Thompson -- Gregory E. Smoak -- Richard White -- Leisl Carr Childers -- Michael Childers -- Leighton M. Quarles -- Prospecting the past : how public history and tourism remade Lake City, Colorado / Mette Flynt -- Trisha Venisa-Alicia Martínez and Vanessa Fonseca-Chávez -- Yvette Towersap Tuell -- E. Richard Hart -- Brittani R. Orona -- Laurie Arnold -- Jedediah Rogers -- Stephen Aron and Virginia Scharff.
"This collection of essays explores the meanings and uses of contemporary public history in the American West"--
9781647690359
2021007613
University of Utah. American West Center --History.
Public history--History.--West (U.S.) Public lands--Management.--West (U.S.) Public historians--West (U.S.)