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 44th Annual WHA Conference • Las Vegas, Nevada • October 13-16, 2004

Wednesday, October 13
Thursday, October 14
Friday, October 15
Saturday, October 16


WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 13
WHA Ad-hoc Curators/Librarians/Archivists Group - Digital Resources for the Study of Western History
Wednesday, Oct 13 - 1:30 - 3:00
The rapid proliferation of projects intended to capture an ever-widening range of research materials in digital format has already and will continue to alter the landscape of scholarly inquiry as well as that of rare books and manuscripts. Online collections have come to play a crucial role throughout the field of American history in supporting both research and classroom instruction.  Many of these projects provide access to significant collections documenting the history of the trans-Mississippi West through visual and textual resources.  In emphasizing such resources, this session will discuss the great variety of digital resources available through the world of special collections for both teaching and research.  The presenters will highlight some of the challenges of making these materials available, from the purely technological to the managerial to the philosophical, and also will evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of selected sites for the purposes of classroom use and historical study.


Coalition for Western Women's History Session: Not Another Song and Dance: The Women of Las Vegas
Wednesday, Oct 13 - 3:30-5:00 PM - Grande Ballroom G
Chair: Joanne Goodwin, University of Nevada, Las Vegas

This roundtable presents the other working women of Las Vegas; the politicians, journalists, food servers, unionists, and others whose role in creating the city is overshadowed by the popular, "carnivalized" image of Las Vegas women as showgirls and sex workers. Each participant will present a brief overview of their work and then they will entertain questions from the audience.
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 14
MHA Session: Mormon Boundary Maintenance: Regional Identity and Cultural Identity
Thursday, Oct 14 - 8:30-10:00 AM - Grande Ballroom G
Chair:    Richard Francaviglia, University of Texas, Arlington
Paper:     Mormons in American Higher Education, 1970-1900, Thomas W. Simpson, University of Virginia
Paper:    Patterns of Resistance and Association: Nineteenth-Century Mormon Identity and Boundary Maintenance, Stephen C. Taysom, Indiana University
Paper:    Transformation of Geographical Identity in the Americanizing Mormon Culture Region, Ethan Yorgason, Brigham Young University
Comment:    Charles S. Peterson, Utah State University


Video Documentary: It's Our Country, Too: Alvin Josephy and American Indians
Thursday, Oct 14 - 8:30-10:00 AM - Capri 102

Panelist:    Sean Cassidy, Lewis-Clark State College
Panelist:    Patricia Keith, Lewis-Clark State College


The Promise and Perils of Legal Records: Recovering the History of Peoples of Color in the American West: A Roundtable
Thursday, Oct. 14 - 8:30-10:00 AM - Capri 104

Chair:    Peter L. Reich, Whittier Law School
Paper:    Delinquent Youths in Late Nineteenth - Early Twentieth Century California, Miroslava Chávez-García, University of California, Davis
Paper:    Arizona Territorial Records: The Narrative of Chinese Lives at the U.S.-Mexico Border, Grace Peña Delgado (California State University, Long Beach)
Paper:    Giving Voice to Californios: The Case Files of the Los Angeles County Probate Court, 1850-1878, Donna C. Schuele, University of Southern California
Paper:    19th Century Legal Records from Texas After Annexation, Omar Valerio-Jiménez, California State University, Long Beach


Writing and Rewriting Race and Nation in the West
Thursday, Oct. 14 - 8:30-10:00 AM - Capri 105

Chair:    Brian Klopotek, University of Oregon
Paper:    Mexican Catholics in the West: Revising the Civilizing Mission, Anne M. Martínez, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Paper:    Progressive Indians, Orientals, and Mexicans: Representing the West’s Racial Diversity in The Survey and Survey Graphic, 1919-1929, Robert Johnson, University of California, Santa Barbara
Paper:    The Federal Writers’ Project’s Men at Work and Modern Labor in the Hispanic and Native American West, Matthew L. Basso, University of Richmond
Comment:    Audience


That "Old Time Religion" in the Modern Metropolis
Thursday, Oct. 14 - 8:30-10:00 AM - Capri 106

Chair:  William Deverell, University of Southern California
Paper:    “There’s No Depression in Heaven”: Hillbilly Preachers, Ham and Eggs, and the Shifting Religious and Political Landscape of California’s Working Class, 1943-1948, Darren Dochuk, University of Notre Dame
Paper:    Sex and God in the City of Angels: The Kidnapping of Aimee Semple McPherson and Conservative Religion in Los Angeles, Matthew A. Sutton, Unviersity of California, Santa Barbara
Paper:    Crossing the Waters: Los Angeles Religious Radio and Global Crises at Mid-Century,Philip Goff, Indiana University-Purdue University
Comment:    William Deverell
Blazing Trails: Community Builders in Las Vegas
Thursday, Oct. 14 - 8:30-10:00 AM - Capri 107
Chair:    Peter Michel, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Paper:    Early Las Vegas Clubwomen: Models of Citizenship, Deanna E. Beachley, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Paper:    Letters to Tiza: Helen Stewart and the Early Years of Las Vegas, Fran Campbell, Community College of Southern Nevada
Paper:    African American Women as Migrants and Community Builders in Las Vegas, Claytee D. White, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Paper:    Lasting Wave of Talent, Joyce Marshall-Moore, Nevada Women's History Project
Comment:    Audience


Many Men in Masculine Space
Thursday, Oct. 14 - 8:30-10:00 AM - Capri 108 

Chair:    Katherine Morrissey, University of Arizona
Paper:    "A Question of Manhood": Constructing Masculinity with Sir William Drummond Stewart and Alfred Jacob Miller, Moncia Rico, Lawrence University
Paper:    William O. Douglas, “A Man’s Man”: Masculinity, the Wilderness Frontier, and the Twentieth Century West, Adam M. Sowards, University of Idaho
Paper:    The West as Moral and Masculine Space: The Formation of Ethical Character at Western Ranch Schools, Melissa Bingmann  Indiana University - Purdue University at Indianapolis
Comment:    Katherine Morrissey


Chinese Americans Experiencing the West
Thursday, Oct. 14 - 8:30-10:00 AM - Capri 109 

Chair:    Jere W. Roberson  University of Central Oklahoma
Paper:    Buried Memories: Underground Chinatown in Oklahoma City,1900-1920, Xiaobing Li, University of Central Oklahoma
Paper:    The Early Chinese Immigrants’ Experience inSan Diego, 1800s-1930s, Yi Sun, University of San Diego
Paper:    The "Yellow Peril" and the Californias: Anti-Asian Movements in Baja California Norte and California, Mee-Ae Kim, Albertson College of Idaho
Comment:    Liping Zhu  Eastern Washington University


Race and Gender in the West
Thursday, Oct. 14 - 10:30-Noon - Grande Ballroom G

Chair:    John R. Wunder, University of Nebraska, Lincoln
Paper:    “I’m Just a Servant of the Moon”: Lucy Hicks, Race, and Gender in the Mid-twentieth Century West, Kevin Allen Leonard,  Western Washington University
Paper:    Searching for Brandon Teena/Teena Brandon: Appropriation,Power, and Representations of Transgenderism in the American West, Lisa Pollard, University of Nebraska, Lincoln
Paper:    Go West Young Man, Go East Young Woman: Transgenderism atthe
Great Divide of Western History and Historiography, Peter Boag, University of Colorado, Boulder
Comment:    Peggy Pascoe, University of Oregon


Donald Cutter: A Life of Scholarship
Thursday, Oct. 14 - 10:30-Noon - Capri 102

Chair:    Iris H. W. Engstrand, University of San Diego
Panelist:    Charles Cutter, Purdue University
Panelist:    Richard Ellis, Fort Lewis College
Panelist:    Janet Fireman, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County
Panelist:    Cheryl Foote, Albuquerque Technical Vocational Institute
Panelist:    Sandra Schackel,  Boise State University
Panelist:    David J. Weber, Clements Ctr for SW Studies, SMU


Encountering New Mexico: Reading Food, Photographing Ritual, and Revitalizing Landscape
Thursday, Oct. 14 - 10:30-Noon - Capri 104

Chair:    Maria E. Montoya, University of Michigan
Paper:    Recipe for Culture: Food, Cookbooks, and Cultural Identity in New Mexico, Virginia Scharff, University of New Mexico
Paper:    Indo-Hispano Ritual: Reading Cultural Hybridity in Photographs, Miguel Gandert, University of New Mexico
Paper:    The New Mexico Plazas Project, Chris Wilson, University of New Mexico
Comment:    Maria E. Montoya


Constructing and Reinventing Ethnicity and Identity
Thursday, Oct. 14 - 10:30-Noon - Capri 105

Chair:    Bruce Dinges, Arizona Historical Society
Paper:    “They Are Either White or Consider Themselves To Be So”:Hispanic Ethnicity at Janos Presidio, 1723-1822, Lance R. Blyth, Northern Arizona University
Paper:    “These Greasers Are Very Treacherous”: Ranger Images ofMexicans in Texas,1875-1900,  Andrew R. Graybill, University of Nebraska, Lincoln
Paper:    Reinventing Indians: Platón Vallejo, the Patwin, and California History, Joshua Paddison, UCLA
Comment: Troy Johnson, California State Univ, Long Beach


Western Nature: Plants, Gardens, and Fire in the West
Thursday, Oct. 14 - 10:30-Noon - Capri 106

Chair:    David Holtby, University of New Mexico Press
Paper:    The Miniature, the Symbolic, and the Wild: Capturing Western Identity Through Native Plant Preservation, Elizabeth Carney Sowards,  University of Idaho
Paper:    Tangible Memories: Californians and Their Gardens, Judith M. Taylor, San Francisco, California
Paper:    “A Sight Which Cannot be Erased While Life Lasts”: Prairie Fireand Plains Settlement, Julie Courtwright, University of Arkansas
Comment:    Louis S. Warren, University of California, Davis


Government Power in the West
Thursday, Oct. 14 - 10:30-Noon - Capri 107

Chair:    R. Douglas Hurt,  Purdue University
Paper:    Lands Above the Ordinary: The US Forest Service and theNational Recreation Area Concept, Douglas W. Dodd, California State University, Bakersfield
Paper:    The National Parks Conservation Association: The University, theNational Parks, and External Support, Darcy Gamble, National Parks Conservation Association
Paper:    Forest Scholars: The Early History of Education at YosemiteNational Park, Jeff Pappas, Worcester Academy
Comment:     Mark Harvey,  North Dakota State University


Native American Responses to Colonialism in the Hispanic West
Thursday, Oct. 14 - 10:30-Noon - Capri 108

Chair:    Durwood Ball, University of New Mexico
Paper:    It Didn’t Work: Civilizing the Chiracahua Apaches Through Catholicism in the Early Hispanic West, H. Henrietta Stockel, Cochise College
Paper:    America – Love it or Leave it: A Choctaw Response to American Injustice, Donna L. Akers, University of Nebraska, Lincoln
Comment:    Durwood Ball


History and Myth in the West
Thursday, Oct. 14 - 10:30-Noon - Capri 109

Chair:    Dee Garceau-Hagen, Rhodes College
Paper:     A Woman Homesteader: Reality and Imagination of Elinore Stewart, Jessie L. Embry, Brigham Young University
Paper:    Discursive Frontiers: The Problem of Individual and National Unity in John Rollin Ridge’s The Life and Adventures of Joaquin Murieta, Kenneth Speirs, Kingsborough Community College
Paper:    A Nice Clean Story of the West: Josie Earp and Frontier Marshall, Jane G. Haigh, University of Arizona
Comment:    Laura McCall, Metropolitan State College of Denver 


FILM SCREENINGS
Royale Skybox 209

2:00 - 4:00 PM    Burying the Past: The Legacy of the Mountain Meadows Massacre

4:00 - 5:00 PM    Investigating History: Wyatt Earp at the O.K. Corral

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 15
 Legacies of Conflict: Violent Images and Historical Realities of the Rocky Mountain Labor Wars
Friday, Oct. 15 - 8:30-10:00 AM - Grande Ballroom G
Chair:    Susan L. Johnson, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Paper:    Radical Images and Ideological Realities: Rocky Mountain Workers and the Tactics of Class Struggle, 1898-1911, John P. Enyeart, Enyeart, Bucknell University
Paper:    High Grade and Fools Gold: The Cripple Creek Strike of 1903-1904 in History and Memory, Elizabeth Jameson, University of Calgary
Paper:    Remembering and Forgetting Labor’s Power: The Cold War, Capital Mobility, and the Legacy of Rocky Mountain Unionism, Laurie Mercier, Washington State University, Vancouver
Comment :    Mary Murphy, Montana State University


The Politics of Native American History and Studies: A Roundtable
Friday, Oct. 15 - 8:30-10:00 AM - Grande Ballroom H

Chair:    Margaret Connell-Szasz, University of New Mexico
Panelist:    R. David Edmunds, University of Texas, Dallas
Panelist:    Jennifer Denetdale, University of New Mexico
Panelist:    Andrea Smith, University of Michigan
Panelist:    Lomayumtewa Ishii, Northern Arizona University


Three Roads to Mountain Meadows
Friday, Oct. 15 - 8:30-10:00 AM - Capri 101

Chair:    Douglas Seefeldt, University of Nebraska, Lincoln
Paper:    Burying the Past: The Legacy of the Mountain Meadows Massacre, Brian Patrick, University of Utah
Paper:    "The Dead Lee Scroll" and the Enduring Mysteries of Mountain Meadows, Will Bagley, Salt Lake City, Utah
Paper:    Unearthing the Past, Shannon A. Novak, University of Utah
Comment:    Thomas G. Alexander,  Brigham Young University


Photography and Art in the West
Friday, Oct. 15 - 8:30-10:00 AM - Capri 102

Chair:    Martha Sandweiss, Amherst College
Paper:    Looking Westward with Evelyn Cameron: A Photographer’s SlowJourney from Space to Place, Mary Greenfield, La Guardia and Wagner Archives
Paper:    Collecting the Intimate Image: Photographs of Native Americansand the Nineteenth-Century Album, Rachel Sailor, University of Iowa
Paper:    “A Battle Between Art and Progress”: Edgar Hewett and thePolitics of Region in the Early Twentieth-Century Southwest, Carter Jones Meyer, Ramapo College of New Jersey
Comment:    Joan M. Jensen, New Mexico State University


Chicano Catholic History of the West
Friday, Oct. 15 - 8:30-10:00 AM - Capri 104

Chair:    Raquel Casas, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Paper:    Evangelizadoras Tejanas: The Female Missionary Catechists of the Divine Providence of Texas, 1930-2000, Sister Anita de Luna, Our Lady of the Lake University
Paper:    Father Victor Salandini: The Tortilla Priest and the People of Corn, Alberto L. Pulido, University of San Diego
Paper:    Presente! Fr. Luis Olivares and the Sanctuary Movement in LosAngeles in the 1980s: A Study of Faith, Ethnic Identity, and Ecumenism, Mario T. Garcia, University of California, Santa Barbara
Comment:    Raquel Casas


Empire, Unrest, and Order in the Territorial West
Friday, Oct. 15 - 8:30-10:00 AM - Capri 105

Chair:    Richard Ellis, Fort Lewis College
Paper:    Martial Borderland: The United States Army and the Incorporation of New Mexico, 1846-1912, Edward J. Dudlo, Southern Methodist University
Paper:    Ethnicity, Identity, and Conflict on the Colorado-New MexicoBorder, 1867, William Convery,  University of New Mexico
Paper:    “Desperate Men and a Desperate Encounter”: Perspectives onLawlessness in Cochise County, Arizona, 1880-1882, Andrea Pugsley, National Archives and Records Administration
Comment:    Richard Ellis


Phi Alpha Theta Session: The Parks and the Public
Friday, Oct. 15 - 8:30-10:00 AM - Capri 106

Chair:    Melody Webb, Georgetown, Texas
Paper:    “Light Burning is the Bunk”: The National Park Service and the Origins of Prescribed Burning Lincoln Bramwell, University of New Mexico
Paper:    Paradise Closed? Reconsidering Cars and the Wilderness Ideal in National Parks, David Louter, National Park Service
Paper:    Creating a Better Wilderness: The Built Environment and theVisitor Experience in Yosemite National Park, Charles Palmer, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Comment:    Mark Barringer, Stephen F. Austin State University


When Reality Trumps Imagination: True Stories of Nevada Women
Friday, Oct. 15 1 - 8:30-10:00 AM - Capri 107

Chair:    Kathleen Noneman, Nevada Women's History Project
Paper:    Helen Stewart, the First Lady of Las Vegas, Carrie Porter, Nevada Women's History Project, State President
Paper:    The Life and Writing of Susan Berman, Las Vegas Author and Murdered Mob Princess, Cheryll Glotfelty, University of Nevada, Reno
Paper:    Sarah Winnemucca Reconsidered, Sally S. Zanjani,  University of Nevada, Reno
Comment:    Kathleen Noneman


Movies, Murder and Marijuana: Illicit Identities in the Hispanic West
Friday, Oct. 15 - 8:30-10:00 AM - Capri 108

Chair:    David G. Gutierrez, University of California, San Diego
Paper:    “Serapes and Cigarillos”: Scenes from BorderCourtrooms, 1850-1890, Allison Brownell Tirres,  Harvard University
Paper:    Mexican Migrations, Marijuana, and Mexicanidad, Isaac Campos-Costero, Harvard University
Paper:    Hernandez v. Texas:Legacies of Justice and Injustice, Kevin R. Johnson, University of California, Davis
Comment:    John R. Chávez,  Southern Methodist University


American Indians in the Near Southwest
Friday, Oct. 15 - 10:30-Noon - Grande Ballroom G

Chair:    Jeroma A. Greene, National Park Service
Paper:    Archaeologies of History: The Long-Term and the Event in Northern Mexico and Texas, Mariah Wade University of Austin, Texas
Paper:    Strategies for Survival: The Lipan Apaches in Texas, 1790-1853, F. Todd Smith, University of North Texas
Paper:    Tigua Blood is Stronger Than Mexican: The Maintenance of Indigenous Identity Among the Tiguas of El Paso, Texas, Mark E. Miller, Ouachita Baptist University
Comment:    Audience


These are the Real Indians, Aren't They?
Friday, Oct. 15 - 10:30-Noon - Grande Ballroom H

Chair:    L. G. Moses  Oklahoma State University
Paper:    Modern Chapter Government: Transitioning Navajo Ideology to Anglo-American Ideals, AnCita Benally, Arizona State University
Paper:    Changes in Images and Records of Indian Education, Brian Collier, Arizona State University
Comment:    L. G. Moses


Where Now? The Future of the Western Past: A Roundtable
Friday, Oct. 15 - 10:30-Noon - Capri 101

Chair:    Elliott West, University of Arkansas
Panelist:    Vicki L. Ruiz, University of California, Irvine
Panelist:    Michael Witgen, University of Michigan
Panelist:    Ryan J. Carey, Simon's Rock of Bard College
Panelist:    Flannery Burke, Cal State University, Northridge


Sex and the Cities: Images and Realities of Prostitution in the Modern American West
Friday, Oct. 15 2 - 10:30-Noon C2 Capri 102

Chair:    Neil L. Shumsky, Virginia Tech
Paper:    San Antonio's Colorful Red Light District, Rachel Hays, Williams University of Washington University of Washington
Paper:    We Ain't Gonna Have Any Whore House: The Public Response to Prostitution in Tulsa, Oklahoma, Shelly Lemons, St. Louis Community College at Meramec
Paper:    Tails of the West: Burlesque Culture in the 1950s, Jaye Furlonger, University of San Diego
Comment:    Neil L. Shumsky


African Americans, Asian Americans, and Whiteness in the West
Friday, Oct. 15 - 10:30-Noon - Capri 104

Chair:    Matthew Guterl, Indiana University
Paper:    On the Wire: Competing Images of Japanese-Americans Duringthe Internment, Heather Fryer, Creighton University
Paper:    “Sambo” and the “Moon-Eyed Celestials”: Race and Nation in the Making of Whiteness in San Francisco, Claire Nee Nelson, Yale University
Paper:    Where do They Sit?: Defining Race and the Creation of Jim Crowin Texas, Stephanie Cole, University of Texas, Arlington
Comment:    Crystal S. Anderson, Ohio University
                    Matthew Guterl


Women of Color in the Nineteenth Century: Image and Record
Friday, Oct. 15 - 10:30-Noon - Capri 105

Chair:    Sandra Schackel, Boise State University
Paper:    Polly Bemis, Priscilla Wegars, University of Idaho
Paper:    Sacagawea, Carol Lynn MacGregor,  Boise State University
Paper:    La Tules, Deena J. Gonzalez, Loyola Marymount University
Comment:    Erika Kuhlman, Idaho State University


Many Westerns, Many Scripts
Friday, Oct. 15 - 10:30-Noon - Capri 106

Chair:    Richard Etulain, University of New Mexico, Emeritus
Paper:    Pre-history of the Western Film Noir: From Borderlands to RoadMovie and Back Again, T.J. Olson, University of London
Paper:    Images of a Wildly Imagined West: The Musical Westerns of Jed Buell, Cynthia J. Miller, Emerson College, Inst. for Interdisciplinary Studies
Comment:    John Lenihan, Texas A&M University


Retrieving Native Histories in the Colorado River Region
Friday, Oct. 15 2 - 10:30-Noon C7 Capri 107

Chair:    Jeffrey P. Shepherd, University of Texas, El Paso
Paper:    “Inquiring the Way”: Local Knowledge and the Mapping of theUnited States Beyond the 100th Meridian, 1869-1879, Cathleen D. Cahill, University of New Mexico
Paper:    Indian Politics and Activism Along the Colorado River, 1900-1940, Christian W. McMillen, Yale University
Paper:    How the Central Arizona Project Contributed to the Death of the Great Spirit, Jack Loeffler, Santa Fe, New Mexico
Comment:    Ned Blackhawk


Representing Western Region and Landscape
Friday, Oct. 15 - 10:30-Noon - Capri 108

Chair:    Barton Barbour, Boise State
Paper:    Rendering Expansion: The West and the Contest for Accuracy inthe Early American Republic, Peter Kastor, Washington University in St. Louis
Paper:    Geomorphology in the American Southwest: Problems in Theoryand Management, Gretchen M. Merten, Northern Arizona University
Paper:    Landscape, Wilderness, and Perceptions of the American West,1800-1890, Kerry R. Oman,  University of Utah
Comment:    Barton Barbour


Vigilantism, Lynching, and Citizenship in the Southwest, 1870-1921
Friday, Oct. 15 - 2:30-4:00 - Grande Ballroom G

Chair:    Ben Johnson, Southern Methodist University
Paper:    Lynching and the Language of Citizenship: “Naturalizing”Rustlers in Texas, 1870-1890, Helen McLure, Southern Methodist University
Paper:    Vigilantism as Corporate Policy: Before and After the Bisbee IWW Deportation of 1917, Katherine Benton-Cohen, Louisiana State University
Paper: Vigilantism and Good Citizenship on the Texas Border, 1912-1921, Christopher Capozolla, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Comment:    Ben Johnson


Contested Indian Identities: Tourism, Festivals, and Performance in the Golden State
Friday, Oct. 15 - 2:30-4:00 - Grande Ballroom H

Chair:   Louis Warren, University of California, Davis
Paper:    San Diego County Indian Fiestas 1880-1940: From Cultural Ritual to Generating Profit and Reinforcing Stereotypes, Richard L. Carrico, San Diego State University
Paper:    Indian Field Days in Yosemite Park, 1916-1929, Stella C. Mancillas, University of California, Davis
Paper:    The Mission Pageant of San Juan Capistrano: Representations ofIdentity in a California Village, Lisa L. Woodward, University of California, Davis
Comment:    Philip J. DeLoria, University of Michigan


Beyond the Academy: Bringing the West to the Public
Friday, Oct. 15 - 2:30-4:00 - Capri 101

Chair:    Paul Hutton, University of New Mexico
Panelist:    Thom Ross, Seattle, Washington
Panelist:    Bob Boze Bell, True West Publishing
Panelist:    Johnny Boggs, Sante Fe, WWA
Panelist:    William Heath, Mount Saint Mary's College
Panelist:    Paul L. Hedren, National Park Service


Rethinking the Mexican North and the U.S. West: A Transnational Workshop
Friday, Oct. 15 - 2:30-4:00 - Capri 102

Chair:    Bárbara O. Reyes, umsl
Panelist:    Danna Levin Rojo, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, Azcapotzalco
Panelist:    Lucila León Velazco, Instituto de Investigaciones Historicas,Universidad Autónoma de Baja California
Panelist:    Mario Magaña Mancillas, Centro de Investigaciones Culturales, Universidad Autónoma de Baja California
Panelist:    Cynthia Radding, LAII, umsl
Panelist:    Andrés Reséndez, University of California, Davis
Panelist:    Samuel Truett, University of New Mexico


Ninth Judicial Circuit Historical Society Session: Chillingly Real: Western Innovations in Civil Rights and Criminal Trials
Friday, Oct. 15 3 - 2:30-4:00 C4 Capri 104

Chair:    Hon. Robert J. Johnston, U.S. District Court, District of Nevada
Paper:    Phillips v. Phoenix Union High Schools: Desegregating the“Valley of the Sun”, Matthew C. Whitaker, Arizona State University
Paper:    Maxwell v. Dow: An Eight-Man Felony Conviction Upheld andthe Rest of the Story, Nancy Taniguchi, California State University, Stanilaus
Paper:    Supporting Counsel and Landmark Constitutional Decisions: GusJ. Solomon and DeJonge v. Oregon, Harry H. Stein, Northwest Independent Scholars Association
Comment:       Paula Petrik, George Mason University


Salvaging a Native Past: Institutionalizing Indianness in Anthropology and Museums
Friday, Oct. 15 - 2:30-4:00 - Capri 105

Chair:    Susan Sleeper-Smith, Michigan State University
Paper:    Making the Southwest American: The Smithsonian Institution and the Pueblos Michael J. Lawson, Arizona State University
Paper:    A “Slot Already Made”: Alfred Kroeber and the Institutionalization of Indiannness in The World’s Work, Anne Peterson, University of Iowa
Paper:    Desperately Seeking…: Ethnographic Displays at the LoganMuseum of Anthropology and the Search for an Indigenous Past, Michel Hogue, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Comment:    Susan Sleeper-Smith


"Acceptable" Female Behavior
Friday, Oct. 15 - 2:30-4:00 - Capri 106

Chair:    Lillian Schlissel, Brooklyn College
Paper:    "A Sharp Woman, and a Tiger": Susan McSween and Female Identity in the Gilded Age West, Kathleen Chamberlain, Eastern Michigan University
Paper:    Isabella Greenway: Arizona’s New Deal Congresswoman, Kristie Miller, National Coalition of Independent Scholars
Paper:    The Most Powerful Woman in Denver: Dana Crawford and theReshaping of Urban Space, Judy Morley,  Denver History Tours
Comment:    Glenna Matthews, Institute of Urban and Regional Development, Berkeley


Peopling the Oasis: Ethnic Las Vegas
Friday, Oct. 15 - 2:30-4:00 - Capri 108

Chair:    Jerry L. Simich, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Paper:    Fulfilling the Chinese American Dream in Las Vegas, Sue Fawn, Chung University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Paper:    From Bootleggers to Casino Moguls: Italian Americans and Jewish Americans Build the Las Vegas Strip, Alan Balboni, Community College of Southern Nevada
Paper:    Hispanic Las Vegas, Thomas C. Wright, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Comment:    Allison Varzally, California State University, Hayward
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 16
Las Vegas and the Law
Saturday, Oct. 16 - 8:30-10:00 AM - Grande Ballroom G
Chair:    David S. Tanenhaus, UNLV
Paper:    The Great Defender: Judge Harry Claiborne and the Law in Nevada, J. Bruce Alverson, Alverson Taylor, Attorneys at Law
Paper:     At the Center of Things: U.S. District Judge Lloyd George of Nevada, Briant Platt, U.S. Disctrict Court of Nevada
Paper:    Quality Work: Lionel Sawyer and Collins, Nevada’s Largest Firm, Michael Green,  Community College of Southern Nevada
Comment:    Kathleen Brosnan, University of Houston


Indian Identity
Saturday, Oct. 16 - 8:30-10:00 AM - Grande Ballroom H

Chair:    Sherry Smith, Southern Methodist University
Paper:    The Tontos Return to Their Homeland: Kinship and Caste in aWestern Region, 1890-1930 Daniel Herman, Central Washington University
Paper:    California Indians, The Great Depression, and the Indian NewDeal: The Round Valley Indian Response in Mendocino County,1929-1937, Jason C. Newman, Cosumnes River College
Paper:    Peace by Deceit: Rethinking the Apache Reservations, 1786-1821, Matthew Babcock, Southern Methodist University
Comment:    Emily Greenwald, Historical Research Associates, Inc.


The Modern Borderlands
Saturday, Oct. 16 - 8:30-10:00 AM - Capri 102

Chair:    Ross Frank, University of California, San Diego
Paper:    Capturing the Border Through the Camera Lens: Comparison of the Spanish-Language and English-Language Broadcast News in San Diego, Kristin Moran, University of San Diego
Paper:    Going Public: Civil Society and the Problem of the Commons in Early Tijuana, Daniel Lanpher,  Yale University
Paper:    Cross-Border Engagement of the Global Economy in the SanDiego-Tijuana Region, David Shirk, University of San Diego
Comment:    Ross Frank


Challenging Memory: Historical Records at Odds with Community Myth-Making and Public Practice
Saturday, Oct. 16 - 8:30-10:00 AM - Capri 104

Chair:    David M. Wrobel  UNLV
Paper:    Tillamook County’s “Embarrassment of Riches”: Dominant Narratives, Forgotten Images, and Echoes of Other Pasts, Lori A. Gates, Tillamook Bay Community College
Paper:    Challenging Memory and Historical Myth Making: Community Heritage Agencies Record History for Tourists, Delores Nason McBroome,  Humboldt State University
Paper:    Failure is not an Option: The Johnson Space Center’s Approach to the Images and Spirit of NASA, Armeda C. Reitzel, Humboldt State University
Comment:    Audience


Animals and Culture in the West
Saturday, Oct. 16 - 8:30-10:00 AM - Capri 105

Chair:    Andrew Isenberg,  Princeton University
Paper:    A Horse Is a Horse of Course: Multiple Horse Cultures and Ethnocultural Change in the North American West, Steven M. Fountain, University of California, Davis
Paper:    “Poor Polly She Can Hardly Go But MUST”: Women and Their Animal Companions on the Trails West, 1849-1900, Diana L. Ahmad, University of Missouri, Rolla
Paper:    Bears, Mountain Lions, and Getting Lost: Safety and Space in the Northwest Forests, Erik Loomis, University of New Mexico
Comment:    Jim Sherow, Kansas State University


The Radical Right in the Twentieth-Century West
Saturday, Oct. 16 - 8:30-10:00 AM - Capri 106

Chair:    Evelyn Schlatter, Columbia State Community College
Paper:    Paramilitary Progenitors and Government Suppression: From the Silver Shirts to the Posse Comitatus, An Historical Case Study of Henry Lamont “Mike” Beach, Daniel Levitas, Decatur, Georgia
Paper:    Desperate Breaks: The Development and Demise of the Montana Freemen, Steven E. Shay, Washington State University
Paper:    Apocalyptic Futures: Recent Discourses of Property Rights, Jeff Sellen, Washington State University
Comment:    Lane Crothers, Illinois State University


Southern California's Quest for Water: New Photographic Images of the Altered Landscapes
Saturday, Oct. 16 - 8:30-10:00 AM - Capri 107

Chair:    Dianne M.T. North  University of Maryland University College
Paper:    West by Southwest: Los Angeles Searches for Water, Wanda Hammerbeck,  Flintridge, California
Paper:    Western Waters Pave Paradise, Sant Khalsa, California State University, San Bernardino
Comment:    Brenda J. Southwick, California Farm Bureau


Single Women and Married Women in the West
Saturday, Oct. 16 - 8:30-10:00 AM - Capri 108

Chair:    Mary Ann Irwin,  Diablo Valley College
Paper:    Making Moral Mothers: Oregon Pioneer Associations and Historical Memory, Cynthia D. Culver,  Cal State, Channel Islands
Paper:    Representations and Realities of Single, Wage-Earning Women in Los Angeles, 1900-1929, April De Stefano, Claremont McKenna College
Paper:    Mormonism’s Impact Upon the First Amendment in the Frontier West: It’s Enduring Legacy, Timothy Merrill,  BYU
Comment:    Laura Woodworth-Ney, Idaho State University


American Indians in the Twentieth Century
Saturday, Oct. 16 - 8:30-10:00 AM - Capri 109

Chair:    Margaret Jacobs  University of Nebraksa, Lincoln
Paper:    The Persistence of Termination and the Anti-Indian Backlash,1960-1980, Christopher Riggs, Lewis-Clark State College
Paper:    Trans-Nations: Indians, Imagined Communities, and BorderlandsRealities in the Twentieth Century, Jeffrey M. Schulze, Southern Methodist University
Paper:    Ideology, Action, and Meaning: The Alchemy of Red Power and Black Power, Bradley Shreve, University of New Mexico
Comment:    Raymond Wilson, Fort Hays State University


Terror, Race, and Theft
Saturday, Oct. 16 - 10:30-Noon - Grande Ballroom G

Chair:    Phoebe Kropp, University of Pennsylvania
Paper:    “No Coloreds or Jews Welcome”: Klan Terror and the Development of the West Coast, David Leonard, Washington State University
Paper:    Race Relations in the U.S. During the Red Summer of 1919, Jan Voogd, Harvard College Library
Paper:    Stolen Land in Texas: Myth or Reality?, Armando Alonzo, Texas A&M University
Comment:    Phoebe Kropp


Getting Back on the Horse:Teaching About the West II
Saturday, Oct. 16 - 10:30-Noon - Grande Ballroom H

Chair:    Annette Atkins, Saint John's University
Panelist:    Susan Armitage  Washington State University
Panelist:    William Deverell  University of Southern California
Panelist:    Clyde Ellis  Elon University
Panelist:    Neil Foley  University of Texas, Austin
Panelist:    Patricia N. Limerick  University of Colorado, Boulder
Panelist:    Ron McCoy Emporia State University


California Race and Labor
Saturday, Oct. 16 - 10:30-Noon - Capri 102

Chair:    Andrew Sandoval-Strausz, University of New Mexico
Paper:    Documenting the Legislative Legacy of California’s Central Valley, Glenn Gray, California State University, Fresno
Paper:    Developing a Regional Racial Lexicon: Mexicans and Asiansin Early Twentieth-Century California, Natalia Molina, University of California, San Diego
Paper:    Hispanic Agricultural Labor in the West, Susan Marie Green, California State University, Chico
Comment:    Audience


The Frontier Army and American Society
Saturday, Oct. 16 - 10:30-Noon - Capri 104

Chair:    Michael L. Tate, University of Nebraska, Omaha
Paper:    The Many Wars for Round Valley: The Army, the Federal Government, and the Local Politics of California Indian Country, Khal Schneider, University of California, Berkeley
Paper:    “Pat has Small Chance of Showing His Blood Out in theWilderness”: Class and Ethnicity in the Ideas and Institutions of the Frontier Army, 1865-1890, Kevin Adams, University of California, Berkeley
Paper:    Exploited Soldiers: A Comparative Analysis of Apache and Pawnee Scouts in the Post-Civil War United States Army, Janne Lahti,  University of Helsinki, Finland
Comment:     Robert Wooster Texas A&M University, Corpus Christi


Between White and Brown: The Constructions of "Mexican American" Identities in the 20th Century American West
Saturday, Oct. 16 - 10:30-Noon - Capri 105

Chair:    Tom I. Romero II, University of Colorado, Boulder
Paper:    Land Grants, Lawsuits, and Labels: The Making of a Mexican American Community Identity, San Luis, Colorado, 1960-Present, Nicki M. Gonzales, University of Colorado, Boulder
Paper:    Mexican Americans, Racial Identities, and the Struggle for Equal Rights in Wartime Texas, Thomas Guglielmo, University of Notre Dame
Paper:    Lenses, Landscapes, and Personal Lives: Photography and the making of Mexican American Identity and Community, Smeltertown, Texas, 1915-1950, Monica Perales, University of Houston
Comment:    Tom I. Romero II University of Colorado, Boulder


Negotiating the Western Reality: American Indian Responses to United States Settlement and Rule
Saturday, Oct. 16 - 10:30-Noon - Capri 106

Chair:    Charles Roberts,  California State University, Sacramento
Paper:    The Saga of Tim Hooper’s Homestead, Martha C. Knack, UNLV Anthropology & Ethnic Studies
Paper:    Tille Hardwick vs. U. S.: California Indians, Sovereignty, and Untermination, 1983-2003, Lisa E. Emmerich, California State University, Chico
Paper:    “That’s the Thing You Must Not Lose”: Rethinking the Dawes Act,Washoe Land, Washoe Sovereignty, Matthew S. Makley, Arizona State University
Comment:    David Lewis, Utah State University


Tourism, Gambling, and Divorce
Saturday, Oct. 16 - 10:30-Noon - Capri 107

Chair:  Anne Hyde,  Colorado College
Paper:    Living It Up, Living It Down: Civic Reputation, Tourism and Urban Development in Reno, Nevada, Alicia Barber,  University of Nevada, Reno
Paper:    Beyond the Saloon: A Post-Frontier Re-Interpretation of American Gaming, David G. Schwartz, University of Nevada Las Vegas
Paper:    Reno-vating the Treasure State: Tourism and Divorce in 1930s Montana, Scott Meredith, University of New Mexico
Comment:  Erika Bsumek, U of Texas - Austin


Western Heroes and Their Amours
Saturday, Oct. 16 - 10:30-Noon - Capri 108

Chair:    Louise Barnett, Rutgers University
Paper:    Lula: the Life of Buffalo Bill’s Long-Suffering Wife, Maurine B. Sayler, Colorado Springs, Colorado
Paper:    General Custer’s Secret Indian Family, or How I Discovered My Heritage, Gail Kelly-Custer, Woodland, California
Comment:    Margot Liberty,  Sheridan, Wyoming


Creating Visions of Loveliness: Images of Women in the West, 1889-1999
Saturday, Oct. 16 - 10:30-Noon - Capri 109

Chair:    Catherine Lavender, City University of New York, Staten Island
Paper:    “The Sincere Spinster”: Images of Molly Wood in Film, 1929-1999, Andrea G. Radke,  Brigham Young University
Paper:    “Sequined Icons of Female Strength”: Recreating Rodeo Queens Through Pageantry, Renee M. Laegreid,  Hastings College
Paper:    Sexuality and the Invasion of America, Victoria Smith, University of Nebraska, Lincoln
Comment:    Glenda Riley, Ball State University

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