Western Places, American Myths: How We Think About The West

List of Contributors

319 List of Contributors lary m. dilsaver is professor of geography at the University of South Alabama. He coauthored (with William Tweed) Challenge of the Big Trees: A Resource History of Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks (Three Rivers, CA: Sequoia Natural History Association, 1994), edited America’s National Park System: The Critical Documents (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 1994), and coedited (with William Wyckoff) The Mountainous West: Explorations in Historical Geography (Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, 1995) and (with Craig Colten) The American Environment: Interpretations of Past Geographies (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Little- field, 1992). dydia delyser is assistant professor of geography in the Department of Geography and Anthropology at Louisiana State University. Her work on ghost towns and American social memory has been published widely, and currently she is working on a book on that topic, to be published by University of California Press. peter goin is professor of art in photography and video at the University of Nevada , Reno. He is the author of four books: Tracing the Line: A Photographic Survey of the Mexican-American Border (Reno: P. Goin, limited edition artist book, 1987), Nuclear Landscapes (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1991), Stopping Time: A Rephotographic Survey of Lake Tahoe, with essays by C. Elizabeth Raymond and Robert E. Blesse (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1992), and Humanature (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1996). He coauthored (with Robert Dawson and Mary Webb) A Doubtful River (Reno: University of Nevada Press, 2000). He served as editor of Arid Waters: Photographs from the Water in the West Project (Reno: University of Nevada Press, 1992) and collaborated with members of the Center of the American West on Atlas of the New West. Currently, he is working with C. Elizabeth Raymond on Changing Mines in America, to be published by the University of Minnesota Press and the Center for American Places, and with Paul Starrs on a book about the Black Rock Desert. gary j. hausladen is professor of geography at the University of Nevada, Reno. He authored Places for Dead Bodies (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2000), which deals with sense of place in murder mysteries. He is currently working on an atlas of Western film. terrence w. (terry) haverluk is associate professor of geography at the United States Air Force Academy. He has published on the influence of Hispanics in the American West. richard h. jackson is professor of geography at Brigham Young University. He edited The Mormon Role in the Settlement of the West (Provo: Brigham Young University Press, 1978) and (with S. Kent Brown and Donald Cannon) Historical Atlas of Mormonism (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1994) and authored Land Use in America (New York: Halsted Press, 1982). He is currently completing a book on the environmental impact of irrigation-based settlements in the intermountain West. karen m. morin is associate professor of geography at Bucknell University. Her research on nineteenth-century British women’s travel writing about the American West is widely published. Currently, she is working on a number of projects that link postcolonial studies to the historical geography of North America. pauliina raento is senior lecturer of human geography at the University of Helsinki, Finland. She has published articles in both English and Finnish on Basque nationalism and identities, gaming in North America, and cultural geographies in Finland. The essay in this volume is a product of her three-year project (1998–2001) on U.S. American gaming, funded by the Academy of Finland. akim d. reinhardt is assistant professor of history at Towson State University. Currently, he is working on a book about the political history of the Pine Ridge Reservation during the mid-twentieth century. paul f. starrs is associate professor of geography at the University of Nevada, Reno. He is the author of Let the Cowboy Ride: Cattle Ranching in the American West (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998). He is currently working with Peter Goin on a book about the Black Rock Desert, and on a book about the uses of the Spanish and Portuguese oak woodlands. 320 | contributors john b. (jack) wright is professor of geography at New Mexico State University . He is the author of Rocky Mountain Divide: Selling and Saving the West (Austin : University of Texas Press, 1993), which won the prestigious J. B. Jackson Prize, Montana Ghost Dance: Essays on Land and Life (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1998), and Montana Places (Minneapolis...