Background
Etulain, Richard Wayne was born on August 26, 1938 in Wapato, Washington. Son of Sebastian and Mary Lou (Gillard) Etulain.
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American West, The * A Twentieth - Century History
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A well-written, comprehensive account of the West's major industries whether it be copper mining, oil producing, aerospace industries, or Silicon Valley, and the region's many ethnic groups, the urbanization, the impact of federal policies, the local responses are all covered here along with a myriad of other subjects. To read this wonderfully informative book is to understand the American West, the first really serious study of this twentieth-century region.
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Re-imagining the Modern American West: A Century of Fiction, History, and Art
( From the Mississippi west to the Pacific, from border t...)
From the Mississippi west to the Pacific, from border to border north and south, here is the first thorough overview of novelists, historians, and artists of the modern American West. Examining a full century of cultural-intellectual forces at work, a leading authority on the twentieth-century West brings his formidable talents to bear in this pioneering study. Richard W. Etulain divides his book into three major sections. He begins with the period from the 1890s to the 1920s, when artists and authors were inventing an idealized frontier--especially one depicting initial contacts and conflicts with new landscapes and new peoples. The second section covers the regionalists, who focused on regional (mostly geographical) characteristics that shaped distinctively "western" traits of character and institutions. The book concludes with a discussion of the postregional West from World War II to the ’90s, a period when novelists, historians, and artists stressed ethnicity, gender, and a new environmentalism as powerful forces in the formation of modern western society and culture. Etulain casts a wide net in his new study. He discusses novelists from Jack London to John Steinbeck and on to Joan Didion. He covers historians from Frederick Jackson Turner to Earl Pomeroy and Patricia Nelson Limerick, and artists from Frederic Remington and Charles Russell to Georgia O’Keeffe and R. C. Gorman. The author places emphasis on women painters and authors such as Mary Hallock Foote, Mary Austin, Willa Cather, and Judith Baca. He also stresses important works of ethnic writers including Leslie Marmon Silko, Rudolfo Anaya, and Amy Tan. An intriguing survey of tendencies and trends and a well-defined profile of influences and outgrowths, this book will be valuable to students and scholars of western culture and history, American studies, and related disciplines. General readers will appreciate the book’s balanced structure and spirited writing style. All readers, whatever their level of interest, will discover the major cultural inventions of the American West over the past one hundred years. Named the best book in western American history, 1997.
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Telling Western Stories: From Buffalo Bill to Larry McMurtry (Calvin P. Horn Lectures in Western History and Culture Series)
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What has the western of literature and film contributed to American culture? Richard Etulain, the leading cultural historian of the West, answers that question by tracing four distinct storytelling traditions and exploring the indelible images each has left in the public's mind over the past 125 years. Our images of cowboys, lawmen, outlaws, and Indians come from a collage of sources, including Buffalo Bill, Frederick Jackson Turner, Calamity Jane, Mary Hallock Foote, Geronimo, Mourning Dove, Owen Wister, Zane Grey, Walter Noble Burns, John Ford, Louis L'Amour, Wallace Stegner, Patricia Nelson Limerick, Leslie Marmon Silko, and Larry McMurtry. Etulain begins with the dominant image conveyed in Wild West shows and dime novels of the late nineteenth century--the West as a place of adventure and danger. In the early twentieth century stories by women and Indians appeared, but they were soon overlooked and not rediscovered until the 1970s. The period from the 1920s to the 1950s represents the classic era of western movies and novels--of cavalry charges to save the day and heroes in white hats. But since the 1960s a counter story has emerged, one of ambiguity and complexity that often turned upside down our notions about what really mattered in how we look at the West. Etulain carefully explores why stories of the frontier and American West still rival those of the American Civil War as the country's most popular tales, and he shows how narratives that persisted relatively unchanged for a century have moved in notable new directions since the 1960s.
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Telling Western Stories: From Buffalo Bill to Larry McMurtry (Calvin P. Horn Lectures in Western History and Culture Series) by Etulain, Richard W. (1999) Paperback
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Beyond the Missouri: The Story of the American West
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This new historical overview tells the dramatic story of the American West from its prehistory to the present. A narrative history, it covers the region from the North Dakota-to-Texas states to the Pacific Coast. This West has always been home to richly diverse cultural groups, including today's growing numbers of Indian, Hispanic, Asian and African Americans. Other distinctions have marked the western past: first, the differences among prehistoric peoples and among hundreds of Indian tribes at first white contact; next, the varied western subcultures that emerged in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries; third the social, cultural, and political complexities of the West in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. In Beyond the Missouri, Richard Etulain provides a fresh, balanced narrative of this geographically and culturally vast area and emphasizes two themes: change and complexity. His perspective is neither the too-optimistic, homogenized position of the Turnerian school of historians nor the less optimistic, conflicted approach of the revisionist western historians. Etulain begins his study with a discussion of western landscapes and Native inhabitants. He next examines the Spanish Southwest, colonial rivalries, mountain men, missionaries, and the Oregon Trail. Then Etulain looks at Mormons, miners, western communities, ranching and farming, and transportation networks. He treats western frontier social patterns and cultures and contributes several chapters on the modern West, including the pre-World War II and the Cold War Wests. Etulain concludes with today's continuing search for an American West. Each of the fifteen chapters contains a helpful list of suggested readings. "Richard Etulain has done a remarkable job in this major new book. He incorporates current research into a West-centered narrative, all the while being judicious in his interpretations. Beyond the Missouri is sure to have classroom appeal, but it will also attract readers interested in an engaging and lively narrative history of the West."--Elliott West, Alumni Distinguished Professor, University of Arkansas
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Beyond the Missouri: The Story of the American West by Etulain, Richard W. (2006) Paperback
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By Richard W. Etulain - The American West, Second Edition: A Modern History, 1900 to the Present: 2nd (second) Edition
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The Twentieth century West: Historical interpretations
("What Happened to the American West-the region west of th...)
"What Happened to the American West-the region west of the ninety-eighth meridian-after the frontier was no more?>>>"
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Basques of the Pacific Northwest
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By Grit and Grace: Eleven Women Who Shaped the American West (Notable Westerners)
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Noted historians explore the lives of eleven remarkable women who influenced the West.
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Portraits Of Basques In The New World (The Basque Series)
(This collection of essays provides an overview of the var...)
This collection of essays provides an overview of the varied Basque experiences throughout the American Far West. It covers four centuries in three parts: the Basque diaspora in the New World; immigration and assimilation; and modern Basques.
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With Badges & bullets, Lawmen & Outlaws in the Old West
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With Badges and Bullets: Lawmen & Outlaws in the Old West by various. Fulcrum Pub,1999
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Wild Women of the Old West (Notable Westerners)
( Presents the sensational lives and exploits of nine not...)
Presents the sensational lives and exploits of nine notorious women from the days of boisterous frontier saloons and high-noon showdowns.
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Western Lives: A Biographical History of the American West
( The history of the American West is full of intriguing ...)
The history of the American West is full of intriguing life stories, and the fifteen essays in this collection weave a selection of those lives together to focus on the main currents in the region's history. The first five essays cover the period from contact to the mid-nineteenth century and feature Indian leaders and Spanish colonizers, characters from the Mexican period, explorers, mountain men, and missionaries. Familiar names in this portion are Juan Bautista de Anza, Stephen F. Austin, Doña Tules, Lewis and Clark, Jedediah Smith, and Narcissa Whitman. The second group of essays reflects on Mormons, miners, California Hispanics, American Indians, ranchers, farmers, and the Wild West of Buffalo Bill and Annie Oakley. The essays on the twentieth-century West examine the careers of James J. Hill, John Muir, Jeannette Rankin, Aimee Semple McPherson, J. Robert Oppenheimer, Walt Disney, César Chávez, Barbara Jordan, Microsoft's Paul Allen, and the mythical figure of Rosie the Riveter.
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Western Lives: A Biographical History of the American West by Etulain, Richard W. [University of New Mexico Press, 2004] (Paperback) [Paperback]
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Western Lives: A Biographical History of the American West by Etulain, Richar...
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Lincoln Looks West: From the Mississippi to the Pacific [LINCOLN LOOKS WEST] [Hardcover]
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Owen Wister (Western Writers)
(This continuing series, primarily regional in nature, pro...)
This continuing series, primarily regional in nature, provides brief but authoritative introductions to the lives and works of authors who have written significant literature about the American West. These attractive, uniform pamphlets, none of them longer than fifty pages, will be useful to the general reader as well as to high school and college students.
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Ernest Haycox (Western Writers Series)
("the chief merit of the novel")
"the chief merit of the novel"
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By Etulain R - New Mexican Lives: Profiles and Historical Stories (1/16/02)
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Chiefs and Generals: Nine Men Who Shaped the American West (Notable Westerners)
( The real story behind some of history's famous characte...)
The real story behind some of history's famous characters.
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New Mexican Lives - Biographical History (02) by Etulain, Richard W [Paperback (2002)]
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- The American West: A Twentieth-Century History (American Indian Lives) (The mystique of the Wild West perpetuated by Buffalo Bill...)
- By Grit and Grace: Eleven Women Who Shaped the American West (Notable Westerners) First edition by Etulain, Richard W. (1997) Paperback
- The American West on Film: Myth and Reality (Compares the reality of Western history with its Hollywoo...)
- New Mexican Lives: Profiles and Historical Stories [NEW MEXICAN LIVES] [Paperback]
Other Work
- Author: Owen Wister, 1973, Ernest Haycox, 1988, The American West: A Twentieth-Century History, 1989, Re-imagining the Modern American West: A Century of Fiction, History, Art, 1996, Telling Western Stories: From Buffalo Bill to Larry McMurtry, 1999, Beyond the Missouri: The Story of the American West, 2006, The American West: A Modern History, 1900 to the Present, 2nd edition, 2007. Editor/co-editor: Basque Americans, 1981, Conversations: Wallace Stegner on History and Literature, review edition, 1990, The Twentieth-Century West: Historical Interpretations, 1989, Basques of the Pacific Northwest, 1991, Religion in Modern New Mexico, 1997, By Grit and Grace: Eleven Women Who Shaped the American West, 1997, Myths and the American West, 1998, Portraits of Basques in the New World, 1999, Does the Frontier Experience Make America Exceptional?, 1999, With Badges and Bullets: Lawmen and Outlaws in the Old West, 1999, The Hollywood West: Lives of Film Legends Who Shaped It, 2001, New Mexican Lives, 2002, César Chávez: A Brief Biography, 2002, Wild Women of the Old West, 2003, The American West in 2000, 2003, Chiefs and Generals, 2004, Western Lives: A Biographical History of the American West, 2004, Lincoln Looks West: From the Mississippi to the Pacific, 2010. Contributor over 400 articles and review to professional journals.
Richard Wayne Etulain
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Richard Wayne Etulain, American historian, educator. Recipient Wrangler/Western Heritage award National Cowboy Hall of Fame, 1997, Excellence in Humanities award New Mexico Endowment for Humanities, 1998, Gaspar Perez de Villagra award New Mexico History Society, 2001, Article of Year award South Dakota History, 2005; National Endowment of the Humanities Minority fellow, 1973-1974; NHPC History Editing fellow, 1969-1970.
Education
Bachelor in History & English, Northwest Nazarene University, Nampa, Idaho, 1960; Master of Arts in American Literature, University Oregon, 1962; Doctor of Philosophy in American History and Literature, University Oregon, 1966; Doctor of Humane Letters, Northwest Nazarene University, 2000.
Career
Graduate assistant University Oregon, Eugene, 1963—1966. Assistant professor Northwest Nazarene College, 1966—1968. Associate professor Eastern Nazarene College, Quincy, Massachusetts, 1968—1969.
Postdoctoral grantee Dartmouth College, Hanover, 1969—1970. From associate professor to professor history Idaho State University, Pocatello, 1970—1979. Professor history University New Mexico, Albuquerque, 1979—2001, professor emeritus, since 2001.
Exchange professor, American studies University Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand, 2000, University Basque Country, Vitoria, Spain, 2008. Centennial professor Northwest Nazarene University, Nampa, Idaho, 2008—2009. Adjunct professor George Fox University, Newberg, Oregon, 2010.
Aspinall distinguished professor Mesa State College, Grand Junction, Colorado, 2010. Postdoctoral fellow University Nevada, Reno, 1973-1974, Fulbright professor, Ukraine, 2004. Board trustees Northwest Nazarene University, 2003-2006.
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American West, The * A Twentieth - Century History
(A well-written, comprehensive account of the West's major...)
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Telling Western Stories: From Buffalo Bill to Larry McMurtry (Calvin P. Horn Lectures in Western History and Culture Series)
( What has the western of literature and film contributed...)
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Western Lives: A Biographical History of the American West
( The history of the American West is full of intriguing ...)
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The American West: A Twentieth-Century History (American Indian Lives)
( The mystique of the Wild West perpetuated by Buffalo Bi...)
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Owen Wister (Western Writers)
(This continuing series, primarily regional in nature, pro...)
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Re-imagining the Modern American West: A Century of Fiction, History, and Art
( From the Mississippi west to the Pacific, from border t...)
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Wild Women of the Old West (Notable Westerners)
( Presents the sensational lives and exploits of nine not...)
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The Twentieth century West: Historical interpretations
("What Happened to the American West-the region west of th...)
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Portraits Of Basques In The New World (The Basque Series)
(This collection of essays provides an overview of the var...)
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Beyond the Missouri: The Story of the American West
( This new historical overview tells the dramatic story o...)
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By Grit and Grace: Eleven Women Who Shaped the American West (Notable Westerners)
( Noted historians explore the lives of eleven remarkable...)
- New Mexican Lives - Biographical History (02) by Etulain, Richard W [Paperback (2002)]
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The American West on Film: Myth and Reality
(Compares the reality of Western history with its Hollywoo...)
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Western Lives: A Biographical History of the American West by Etulain, Richard W. [University of New Mexico Press, 2004] (Paperback) [Paperback]
(Western Lives: A Biographical History of the American Wes...)
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With Badges & bullets, Lawmen & Outlaws in the Old West
(With Badges and Bullets: Lawmen & Outlaws in the Old West...)
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Chiefs and Generals: Nine Men Who Shaped the American West (Notable Westerners)
( The real story behind some of history's famous characte...)
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Ernest Haycox (Western Writers Series)
("the chief merit of the novel")
- Telling Western Stories: From Buffalo Bill to Larry McMurtry (Calvin P. Horn Lectures in Western History and Culture Series) by Etulain, Richard W. (1999) Paperback
- Beyond the Missouri: The Story of the American West by Etulain, Richard W. (2006) Paperback
- By Richard W. Etulain - The American West, Second Edition: A Modern History, 1900 to the Present: 2nd (second) Edition
- Basques of the Pacific Northwest
- By Grit and Grace: Eleven Women Who Shaped the American West (Notable Westerners) First edition by Etulain, Richard W. (1997) Paperback
- Lincoln Looks West: From the Mississippi to the Pacific [LINCOLN LOOKS WEST] [Hardcover]
- By Etulain R - New Mexican Lives: Profiles and Historical Stories (1/16/02)
- New Mexican Lives: Profiles and Historical Stories [NEW MEXICAN LIVES] [Paperback]
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American West, The * A Twentieth - Century History
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Author: Owen Wister, 1973, Ernest Haycox, 1988, The American West: A Twentieth-Century History, 1989, Re-imagining the Modern American West: A Century of Fiction, History, Art, 1996, Telling Western Stories: From Buffalo Bill to Larry McMurtry, 1999, Beyond the Missouri: The Story of the American West, 2006, The American West: A Modern History, 1900 to the Present, 2nd edition, 2007. Editor/co-editor: Basque Americans, 1981, Conversations: Wallace Stegner on History and Literature, review edition, 1990, The Twentieth-Century West: Historical Interpretations, 1989, Basques of the Pacific Northwest, 1991, Religion in Modern New Mexico, 1997, By Grit and Grace: Eleven Women Who Shaped the American West, 1997, Myths and the American West, 1998, Portraits of Basques in the New World, 1999, Does the Frontier Experience Make America Exceptional?, 1999, With Badges and Bullets: Lawmen and Outlaws in the Old West, 1999, The Hollywood West: Lives of Film Legends Who Shaped It, 2001, New Mexican Lives, 2002, César Chávez: A Brief Biography, 2002, Wild Women of the Old West, 2003, The American West in 2000, 2003, Chiefs and Generals, 2004, Western Lives: A Biographical History of the American West, 2004, Lincoln Looks West: From the Mississippi to the Pacific, 2010. Contributor over 400 articles and review to professional journals.
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Religion
Life-time evangelical
Membership
Sunday school teacher, member church board, Pocatello, Portland and Albuquerque, since 1970. Member Western Literature Association (president 1979-1980), Western History Association (president 1998-1999, Best Book in Western History award 1997), Organization American Historians.
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Married Joyce Oldenkamp, August 18, 1961. 1 child, Jacqueline Joyce Etulain Partch.
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Recipient Wrangler/Western Heritage award National Cowboy Hall of Fame, 1997, Excellence in Humanities award New Mexico Endowment for Humanities, 1998, Gaspar Perez de Villagra award New Mexico History Society, 2001, Article of Year award South Dakota History, 2005. National Endowment of the Humanities Minority fellow, 1973-1974. NHPC History Editing fellow, 1969-1970.Recipient Wrangler/Western Heritage award National Cowboy Hall of Fame, 1997, Excellence in Humanities award New Mexico Endowment for Humanities, 1998, Gaspar Perez de Villagra award New Mexico History Society, 2001, Article of Year award South Dakota History, 2005. National Endowment of the Humanities Minority fellow, 1973-1974. NHPC History Editing fellow, 1969-1970.