Elliott West
Elliott West (born April 19, 1945 in Dallas , Texas ) is an American historian. His research focus is on the western United States.
Life
West studied from 1965 to 1967 at the University of Texas at Austin , where he received a Bachelor of Arts . He then continued his studies from 1967 to 1971 at the University of Colorado , where he received a Master of Arts in 1969 and a Ph.D. in 1971. West now taught at the University of Texas at Arlington , first from 1971 to 1975 as an assistant professor , then from 1975 to 1979 as an associate professor. In 1979 he moved to the University of Arkansas , where he has been teaching ever since. In 2003 he was appointed Distinguished Professor .
West served on the Arkansas Historical Association's Board of Trustees from 1992 to 1995 . Since 1985 he has served on the Montana Editorial Board , The Magazine of Western History . Furthermore, he was from 1990 to 1993 the Editorial Board of the journal Western Historical Quarterly , and since 1991 general editor of the book series Histories of Arkansas Series of the University of Arkansas Press. From 2001 to 2002 he was the president of the Western History Association .
West received the Charles and Nadine Baum Award from the University of Arkansas in 2001 . In 2003 he received the Award of Merit for Contributions to Mining History from the Mining History Association . His books have also received numerous awards. He won the Western Heritage Award from the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum in the Outstanding Nonfiction Book on the American West category three times, in 1990 for Growing Up With the Country , 1996 for The Way to the West and 2010 for The Last Indian War .
Furthermore, The Contested Plains received the Ray Allen Billington Prize of the Organization of American Historians in the category Best Book on American Frontier in 1998 and the Francis Parkman Prize of the Society of American Historians in 1999 and the Caughey Western History Prize of the Western History Association . The Way to the West received the 1997 George Perkins Marsh Prize from the American Society for Environmental History .
His article Reconstructing Race , published in 2003 in the Western Historical Quarterly , received the 2004 Spur Award from the Western Writers of America Association in the Short Nonfiction category .
West is married and has five children.
Publications (selection)
- Elliott West: The Saloon on the Rocky Mountain Mining Frontier. (1979, Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press)
- Elliott West: Growing Up With the Country: Childhood on the Far-Western Frontier. (1989, Histories of the Frontier Series, Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press)
- Paula Petrik, Elliott West [Ed.]: Small Worlds: Children and Adolescents in America, 1850-1950. (1992, Lawrence: University Press of Kansas)
- Elliott West: The Way to the West: Essays on the Central Plains. (1995, Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press)
- Elliott West: Growing Up in Twentieth-Century America: A History and Resource Guide. (1996, Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press)
- Elliott West: The Contested Plains: Indians, Goldseekers, and the Rush to Colorado. (1998, Lawrence: University Press of Kansas)
- Rodman W. Paul, Elliott West: Mining Frontiers of the Far West: 1848-1880. (2001, Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press)
- Elliott West: The Last Indian War: The Nez Perce Story. (2009, Pivotal Moments in American History Series, Oxford University Press)
Web links
- Biography on the University of Arkansas website
Individual evidence
- ^ George Perkins Marsh Prize , American Society for Environmental History website
- ^ Winner of the Spur Award , Western Writers of America website
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | West, Elliott |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American historian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 19, 1945 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Dallas , Texas |