Elliott West
Elliott West (born April 19, 1945) is an American historian, author and Alumni Distinguished Professor of History at the University of Arkansas.
Biography
West received an undergraduate degree at the University of Texas at Austin before he completed master's and doctoral degrees at the University of Colorado. Early in his career, West taught at the University of Colorado Denver, the University of Texas at Arlington and the University of New Mexico. He became a faculty member at the University of Arkansas in 1979.[1]
Historian Richard White has referred to West as "the best historian of the American West writing today."[2] West's 1998 book, The Contested Plains: Indians, Goldseekers, and the Rush to Colorado, was reviewed in the Journal of Interdisciplinary History and the Pacific Historical Review.[3][4] The work won the 1999 Francis Parkman Prize from the Society of American Historians and shared the Ray Allen Billington Prize from the Organization of American Historians that year.[5][6] A 2009 book, The Last Indian War: The Nez Perce Story, was reviewed in The Journal of American History.[7]
In 2009, he was a finalist for the Cherry Award for Great Teaching given by Baylor University.[8] He has received two Western Heritage Awards.[9] He is a past president of the Western History Association.[10]
References
- ^ "Finalists selected for Baylor's $200,000 Cherry Award for Great Teaching". Media Communications | Baylor University. April 24, 2009. Retrieved April 27, 2016.
- ^ Nugent, Walter (2014). "The Essential West: Collected Essays by Elliott West". Great Plains Quarterly. 34 (2): 205–206. doi:10.1353/gpq.2014.0047. ISSN 2333-5092. Retrieved April 27, 2016.
- ^ Ostler, Jeffrey (1999). "The Contested Plains: Indians, Goldseekers, and the Rush to Colorado (review)". Journal of Interdisciplinary History. 30 (3): 537–538. ISSN 1530-9169. Retrieved April 27, 2016.
- ^ Hall, Thomas D. (November 1999). "The Contested Plains: Indians, Goldseekers, and the Rush to Colorado Elliott West". Pacific Historical Review. 68 (4): 669–671. doi:10.2307/4492385. JSTOR 4492385.
- ^ "Elliott West". Center of the American West. Retrieved April 27, 2016.
- ^ "Ray Allen Billington Prize Winners". Organization of American Historians. Retrieved April 27, 2016.
- ^ Etulain, Richard W. (1 December 2009). "The Last Indian War: The Nez Perce Story. By Elliott West. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2009. xxx, 397 pp. $27.95, ISBN 978-0-19-513675-3.)". The Journal of American History. 96 (3): 860–861. doi:10.1093/jahist/96.3.860. ISSN 0021-8723. Retrieved April 27, 2016.
- ^ Riley, Naomi Schaefer (November 13, 2009). "America's Top College Professor". Wall Street Journal. Retrieved April 27, 2016.
- ^ "LYCEUM - Wichita State University". webs.wichita.edu. Archived from the original on April 21, 2016. Retrieved April 27, 2016.
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