Lincoln Looks West: From the Mississippi to the Pacific

Author Bio

Richard W. Etulain is a professor emeritus of history at the University of New Mexico. A specialist in the history and literature of the American West, he has authored or edited more than forty-five books on U.S., and particularly western U.S., culture. His books include Conversations with Wallace Stegner on Western History and Literature (1983, 1996), The American West: A Twentieth-Century History (coauthored with Michael P. Malone, 1989, 2007), Re-imagining the Modern American West: A Century of Fiction, History, and Art (1996), and Beyond the Missouri: The Story of the American West (2006). His writings have won several awards, and he has served as president of both the Western Literature and Western History Associations. ...