43rd Annual WHA Conference • Fort Worth, Texas
Renaissance Worthington Hotel
October 8-11, 2003

 
 
 
 
SCHEDULE -  2003 Conference
WEDNESDAY SESSIONS MEALS MEETINGS
  National Park Service Historians Roundtable 9:00a.m.-Noon    
  Bibliography Session 1:45-3:15p.m.    Council Meeting 1:00-5:00p.m.
  From Cowgirls to Women on Horseback: Breaking the White Stereotype  (CWWH Session)  3:30-5:00p.m.    
THURSDAY SESSIONS MEALS MEETINGS
7:00a.m.    ASEH Breakfast
Mining History Breakfast
 
8:30-10:00a.m.
  • Correct in Every Detail: Reassessing Popular Images in Western Art
  • Cowboys and Showmen: Constructing a Vision of the Wild West
  • Defining Space in the Pacific Northwest
  • Fifty Years' Perspective on Frank R. Secoy's Changing Military Patterns on the Great Plains
  • Focus on Archives: Tapping Special Collections
  • Howard Lamar: A Southerner at Yale Views the West
  • New Views on the Battle of the Little Big Horn and Representations of Custer
  • The Great War, the West, and Patriotism
  • Way Out West
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    10:30-Noon
  • Chinese Reactions to Anti-Chinese Movements and Legislation in the Pacific Northwest, 1885-1910 
  • Discovering Western Women's History in Unexpected Places
  • Empowering the West: Oil, Alcohol, and Hydroelectric Energy
  • From Las Vegas to Bolivia: New Looks at Labor in the Americas
  • Phi Alpha Theta Session
  • Robert M. Utley: Historical Ranger of the Frontier and West
  • The Future of Western Art: The View from the Director's Chair
  • The Sacred and the Secular: Beauty, Race, and Faith in the New West
  • Tourism and the Search for the Real West
  •   Westerners International Business Meeting 10:30-11:30 For W.I. Members
    Noon   Phi Alpha Theta Luncheon  Montana Editorial Board Luncheon 
    WHQ Editorial Board Luncheon
        Graduate Student Reception 5:00-6:00p.m.  
    FRIDAY SESSIONS MEALS MEETINGS
    7:00a.m.    CWWH Buffet Breakfast
    Public History Breakfast
     
    8:30-10:00a.m.
  • American Violence and the Mountain Meadows Massacre
  • Camping, Concrete, and Cocos Plumosa: Constructing Western Landscapes
  • Charity, Welfare, and Race in the Pacific Northwest
  • From Enumeration to Illumination: Indian Imagery and the Construction of Reservation Societies and Economies
  • From White House to Classroom: Imagery and Politics in Western Art
  • The Boundless Body of Baby Doe Tabor: Popular Culture, History, and Veracity
  • The Inquiring Mind: A Tribute to Bill Goetzmann  (Session rescheduled for 2:30 p.m., same day)
  • Teaching About the West 
  • Tourism in San Francisco's Chinatown: The Cultural Politics of Representation
  •   WHA Program Committee 8:00a.m.-5:00p.m.
    10:30a.m.-Noon
  • Buffalo Bill: A Work in Progress
  • Changing Interpretations of Indian Cultures
  • Confronting the Boundaries of the Boundless West: Transborder Histories of the North American West
  • From Image to Paper: Negotiating Native American-White Relations in the Diplomacy and Cultural Dynamics of the Nineteenth Century 
  • Outlaw Images of the American West
  • The History and Archeology of the Baja California Missions (In Spanish)
  • Travelers and Sojourners: Searching for A Vision of the West
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    Noon   Presidential Luncheon  Noon-2:00p.m.  
    2:30-4:00p.m. 
  • "Variety and Subtlety": Wine Opens a Window on the Modern Western Economy
  • Changing Images of the Southwest Through Art, Travel, and Personal Experience
  • Imaging a Farmer's Paradise: Design and Identity in Idaho and Montana in the Early Twentieth Century
  • The Inquiring Mind: A Tribute to Bill Goetzmann
  • Perceptions of Indian Women 
  • Politics, Economics, and Religion in the West
  • Riding the Range, Riding the Circuit: Women in Ranching and Rodeo (Westerners International Session)
  • Roundtable: Boundless Opportunities - Researching Western Legal History (Ninth Judicial Court Historical Society Roundtable)
  • Teaching About the West   (Session rescheduled for 8:30 a.m., same day)
  •    
          WHA Business Meeting 5:00-6:00p.m. For all WHA members
        Annual Banquet 7:00p.m
    President's Dessert Reception 9:30 p.m.
    SATURDAY SESSIONS MEALS MEETINGS
    7:00a.m.   Westerners International Breakfast  
    8:30-10:00a.m.
  • Art and Nature in Images of the West
  • Contested Boundaries, Frontiers, and Opportunities: Federal Indian Policy Across Space and Time
  • Public Celebrations and the Imagery of the Old West
  • Roundtable on Writing Family History: Research Problems and Considerations
  • The "Floating Army" in the Land of Milk and Honey: Casual, Seasonal, and Itinerant Labor in Western Farms, Forests, and Orchards
  • The “Principle of Plurality”: Mormon Polygamy in Nineteenth-Century Utah (Mormon History Association Session)
  • The Representation and Reality of Violence, Gender, and the Western Military Environment
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    10:30a.m.-Noon
  • John Graves: A Texas Writer's Perspective
  • Masculine Frontiers and Western Heroes: Kit Carson, Buffalo Bill, and John Wayne
  • Symbols of the Past: Rethinking Chapters of American Indian History
  • Teaching History Through Fiction in the “Boundless West”
  • The Boundless South/West: Re-Thinking Regional Histories
  • The Real Wild West
  • The Texas Rangers in History and Legend
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    Noon   Indian Scholars Luncheon
    Military History Luncheon
     
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