Indigenous Peoples and Exploration
Ambrose, Stephen E. Undaunted Courage: Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson, and the Opening of the American West. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1996.
Berkhofer, Robert F. The White Man's Indian: Images of the American Indian from Columbus to the Present. New York: Knopf: Random House, 1978.
Evans, Howard Ensign. The Natural History of the Long Expedition to the Rocky Mountains,
1819-1820. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997.
Hafen, LeRoy R., ed. French Fur Traders and Voyageurs in the American West: Twenty-five Biographical Sketches. Spokane, Washington: Arthur H. Clarke Co., 1994.
Iverson, Peter. When Indians Became Cowboys: Native Peoples and Cattle Ranching in the American West. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1994.
Lewis, David Rich. "Still Native: The Significance of Native Americans in the History of the Twentieth-Century American West." Western Historical Quarterly 24, no. 2 (May 1993): 203-228.
Lewis, David Rich. Neither Wolf Nor Dog: American Indians, Environment, and Agrarian Change. New York: Oxford University Press, 1994.
McGuire, Thomas R., William B. Lord, and Mary G. Wallace, eds. Indian Water in the New West. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1993.
White, Richard. "It's Your Misfortune and None of My Own": A New History of the American West. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1991.
Flora and Fauna
Belsky, Joy. "Cattle and Sheep--The Forgotten Pathogens." Inner Voice 7 (July/August 1995): 6- 7.
Branson, Farrel Allen. Vegetation Changes on Western Rangelands. Denver, CO: Society for Range Management, 1985.
Klinkenborg, Verlyn. "The Mustang Myth: America's Wild Horses Have Inspired One of the Nation's Most Passionate Conservation Battles." Audubon 96, no. 1 (January/February 1994): 34-44.
Merrill, Karen R. "Whose Home on the Range?" Western Historical Quarterly 27.4 (Winter 1996): 433-52.
Muir, John. "The Wild Parks and Forest Reservations of the West." Atlantic Monthly 81 (January 1898): 15-28.
Noss, Reed. F. The Redwood Forest: History, Ecology, and Conservation of the Coast Redwoods. Washington, D.C.: Island Press, 2000.
Petersen, David. Ghost Grizzlies. New York: H. Holt, 1995.
Water, Irrigation, and Reclamation
Babbitt, Bruce. "Age-Old Challenge: Water and the West." National Geographic 179, no. 6 (June 1991): 2-4.
Bates, Sarah F., et al. Searching Out the Headwaters: Change and Rediscovery in Western Water Policy. Washington, D.C.: Island Press for the Natural Resources Law Center, University of Colorado School of Law, 1993.
Berry, Kate A. "Race for Water? Native Americans, Eurocentrism, and Western Water Policy." In Environmental Injustices, Political Struggles: Race, Class, and the Environment, ed. David E. Camacho. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1998.
Clements, Kendrick A. Hoover, Conservation, and Consumerism: Engineering the Good Life. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2000.
Dean, Robert. "Dam Building Still Had Some Magic Then": Stewart Udall, the Central Arizona Project, and the Evolution of the Pacific Southwest Water Plan, 1963-1968." Pacific Historical Review 66.1 (February 1997): 18-99.
Hundley, Norris, Jr. The Great Thirst: Californians and Water, 1770s-1990s. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992.
Hundley, Norris, Jr. Water and the West: The Colorado River Compact and the Politics of Water in the American West. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1975.
Jackson, Donald C. Building the Ultimate Dam: John S. Eastwood and the Control of Water in the West. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1995.
Kiy, Richard, and John D. Wirth, eds. Environmental Management on North America's Borders. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 1998.
Knobloch, Frieda. The Culture of Wilderness: Agriculture as Colonization in the American West. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1996.
Pisani, Donald J. From the Family Farm to Agribusiness: The Irrigation Crusade in California and the West, 1850-1931. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1984.
Pisani, Donald J. To Reclaim A Divided West: Water, Law, and Public Policy, 1848-1902. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1992.
Powell, John Wesley. Report on the Arid Region of the United States. Edited by Wallace Stegner. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1962.
Reisner, Marc. Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water. New York: Viking Penguin, Inc., 1986.
Richardson, Elmo R. Dams, Parks, and Politics: Resource Development and Preservation in the Truman-Eisenhower Era. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1973.
Rowley, William D. Reclaiming the Arid West: The Career of Francis G. Newlands. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1996.
Stegner, Wallace. Beyond the Hundredth Meridian: John Wesley Powell and the Second Opening of the West. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1954.
Vaught, David. "Factories in the Field Revisited." Pacific Historical Review 66.2 (May 1997): 149-185.
Worster, Donald. "Landscape with Hero: John Wesley Powell and the Colorado Plateau." Southern California Quarterly 79 (Spring 1997): 29-46.
Worster, Donald. Rivers of Empire: Water, Aridity, and the Growth of the American West. New York: Pantheon, 1985.
Industrialization
Brigham, Jay L. Empowering the West: Electrical Politics Before FDR. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1998.
Finn, Janet L. Tracing the Veins: Of Copper, Culture, and Community from Butte to Chuquicamata. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998.
Goodman, Doug, and Daniel McCool, eds., Contested Landscape: The Politics of Wilderness in Utah and the West. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 1999.
Hevly, Bruce, and John M. Findlay, eds. The Atomic West. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1998.
Knobloch, Frieda. The Culture of Wilderness: Agriculture as Colonization in the American West. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1996.
Kuletz, Valerie. The Tainted Desert: Environmental Ruin in the American West. New York: Routledge, 1998.
Manning, Richard. "Going for the Gold: Under an 1872 Law, Miners Tore Up the West..." Audubon 96, no. 1 (January/February 1994): 68-77.
Mellinger, Philip J. Race and Labor in Western Copper: The Fight for Equality, 1896-1918. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1995.
Moehring, Eugene. "The Comstock Urban Network." Pacific Historical Review 66.3 (Aug. 1997): 337-363.
Pisani, Donald J. "George Maxwell, the Railroads, and American Land Policy." Pacific Historical Review 53 (May 1994): 177-202.
Rajala, Richard A. "The Forest as Factory: Technological Change and Worker Control in the West Coast Logging Industry, 1880-1930." Labour/Le Travail 32 (Fall 1993): 73-104.
Robbins, William G. Colony and Empire: The Capitalist Transformation of the American West. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1994.
Rudzitis, Gundars. Wilderness and the Changing American West. New York: Wiley, 1996.
Runte, Alfred. Trains of Discovery: Western Railroads and the National Parks. Flagstaff, AZ: Northland Press, 1990.
Starrs, Paul F. Let the Cowboy Ride: Cattle Ranching in the American West. 1st ed. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998.
Culture
Austin, Mary, and John Muir. Writing the Western Landscape. Edited by Ann H. Zwinger. Boston: Beacon Press, 1994.
Baird, W. David. "The American West and the Nixon Presidency, 1969-1974." Journal of the West 34 (April 1995): 83-90.
Cawley, R. McGreggor. Federal Land, Western Anger: The Sagebrush Rebellion & Environmental Politics. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1993.
Cronon, William, George Miles, and Jay Gitlin, eds. Under an Open Sky: Rethinking America's Western Past. New York: W. W. Norton & Co., 1992.
Etulain, Richard W. Re-imagining the Modern American West: A Century of Fiction, History, and Art. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1996.
Goetzmann, William H. Exploration and Empire: The Explorer and the Scientist in the Winning of the American West. New York: W.W. Norton and Co., 1966.
Jaehn, Thomas. The Environment in the Twentieth-Century American West: A Bibliography. Albuquerque: Center for the American West, Dept. of History, University of New Mexico, 1990.
Lewis, Merriwether, and Clark. The Journals of Lewis and Clark. Edited by Frank Bergon. New York: Viking, 1989.
Limerick, Patricia. The Legacy of Conquest. New York: Norton, 1987.
May, Dean L. Three Frontiers: Family, Land, and Society in the American West, 1850-1900. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1994.
Nash, Gerald D. Creating the West: Historical Interpretations, 1890-1990. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1991.
Neel, Susan Rhoades. "A Place of Extremes: Nature, History, and the American West." Western Historical Quarterly 25 (Winter 1994): 489-505.
Riley, Glenda. Women and Nature: Saving the "Wild" West. Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, 1999.
Rohman, Hal K. "Stumbling Toward the Millennium: Tourism, the Postindustrial World and the Transformation of the American West." California History 77 (Fall 1998): 140-55.
Rothman, Hal K. Devil's Bargains: Tourism in the Twentieth-century American West. Lawrence, Kan.: University Press of Kansas, 1998.
Rothman, Hal K. "Selling the Meaning of Place: Entrepreneurship, Tourism, and Community Transformation in the Twentieth-Century American West." Pacific Historical Review 65.4 (Nov. 1996): 525-558.
Rothman, Hal K., ed. Reopening the American West. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1998.
Rudzitis, Gundars. Wilderness and the Changing American West. New York: John Wiley and Sons, Inc., 1996.
Schaffer, Marguerite S. "`See America First': Re-envisioning Nation and Region Through Western Tourism." Pacific Historical Review 65.4 (Nov. 1996): 559-582.
Sherow, James E., ed. A Sense of the American West: An Anthology of Environmental History. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1998.
Slotkin, Richard. Fatal Environment: The Myth of the Frontier in The Age of Industrialization, 1800-1890. New York: Atheneum Publishers, 1985.
Smith, Henry Nash. Virgin Land: The American West as Symbol and Myth. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1950.
Solnit, Rebecca. Savage Dreams: A Journey into the Hidden Wars of the American West. San Francisco: Sierra Club Books, 1994.
Stegner, Wallace. The American West as Living Space. Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, 1987.
Truett, Samuel. "Neighbors by Nature: Rethinking Region, Nation, and Environmental History in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands." Environmental History 2.2 (April 1997): 160-178.
Turner, Frederick. Beyond Geography: The Western Spirit Against the Wilderness. New York: Viking Press, 1980.
Worster, Donald. Under Western Skies: Nature and History in the American West. New York: Oxford University Press, 1992.
Landscape
Engel, Leonard, ed. The Big Empty: Essays on Western Landscapes as Narrative. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1994.
Hurt, R. Douglas, ed. The Rural West Since World War II. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1998.
Limerick, Patricia Nelson. Desert Passages: Encounters with the American Deserts. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1985.
Muir, John. Steep Trails: California, Utah, Nevada, Washington, Oregon, the Grand Canyon. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1918.
Riebsame, William, ed. Atlas of the New West: Portrait of a changing Region. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1997.
Ronda, James P., ed. Thomas Jefferson and the Changing West: From Conquest to Conservation. Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press; St. Louis: Missouri Historical Society Press, 1997.
Sherow, James E., ed. A Sense of the American West: An Anthology of Environmental History. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press: Published in cooperation with the University of New Mexico Center for the American West, 1998.
Tchudi, Stephen, ed. Western Technological Landscapes. Reno: Nevada Humanities Committee, 1998.
Worster, Donald. An Unsettled Country: Changing Landscapes of the American West. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1994.
Wyckoff, William, and Lary M. Dilsaver, eds. The Mountainous West: Explorations in Historical Geography. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1995.