Richard W. Etulain
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Richard W. Etulain

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Richard W. Etulain, Professor Emeritus of History at the University of New Mexico, is the author or editor of more than 60 books. Best known among his books about the history and cultures of the American West are Conversations with Wallace Stegner (1983), Writing Western History (editor, 1991), Re-imagining the Modern American West: A Century of Fiction, History, and 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 (with Michael P. Malone, 2d ed., 2007), and Lincoln Looks West: From the Mississippi to the Pacific (2010). A recent book is Seeking First the Kingdom: Northwest Nazarene University, A Centennial History (2012), and in 2013, Lincoln and Oregon Country Politics in the Civil War Era was published. He has been president of both the Western Literature and Western History associations. He has lectured abroad in several countries, most recently as a Fulbright Lecturer in Ukraine and at the Basque University in northern Spain. He serves as editor of the Oklahoma Western Biographies series for the University of Oklahoma Press and has been coeditor of the Concise Lincoln Library for the Southern Illinois University Press. His biography of Calamity Jane, The Life and Legends of Calamity Jane, appeared in September 2014 and became a History Book Club Selection in 2015. It was also named a Finalist for the Spur Award from the Western Writers of America. Calamity Jane: A Reader's Guide was published in August 2015. In September 2017, his new book Ernest Haycox and the Western was published and was awarded the Thomas J. Lyon book of the year award by the Western Literature Association in 2018. His coauthored book Presidents Who Shaped the American West (with Glenda Riley) appeared in February 2018. Thunder in the West: The Life and Legends of Billy the Kid and Billy the Kid: A Reader's Guide were published in July 2020 by the University of Oklahoma Press. A book entitled Abraham Lincoln: A Western Legacy was published by the South Dakota Historical Society Press in September 2020. Still another book, William S. U'Ren: Oregon Father of the Initiative, Referendum, and Recall has been published by Chaparral Books in Portland. Etulain's brief political biography of western governor Mark O. Hatfield was published in July 2021 by the University of Oklahoma Press. In 2023 the University of New Mexico Press put out a book entitled The American West and Its Interpreters: Essays of Literary History and Historiography. Also in 2023, Washington State University Press printed Boyhood among the Woolies: Growing Up on a Basque Sheep Ranch, a boyhood memoir. In 2024, the University of Nevada Press published Illuminative Moments in Pacific Northwest Prose, 1800 to the Present. Etulain also self-published, in 2023, a book entitled Learning and Faith: A College Memoir. In spring 2024, the University of Nevada accepted for publication Basques of the American West, a collection of previously published and newly written essays.
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