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Title Western lands, western voices : essays on public history in the American West / edited by Gregory E. Smoak.

Publication Info. Salt Lake City : University of Utah Press, [2021]

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Description 1 online resource
Physical Medium polychrome
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Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Foreword : a legacy of publicly engaged scholarship / Gregory C. Thompson -- Introduction : putting history to work in the American West / Gregory E. Smoak -- Posing the question : what makes public history public? / Richard White -- Taking a public turn : public history as public service in the American West / Leisl Carr Childers -- Rothman's West : the education of a western public intellectual / Michael Childers -- Mythic spaces, real places : thoughts on administrative history in the western national parks / Leighton M. Quarles -- Prospecting the past : how public history and tourism remade Lake City, Colorado / Mette Flynt -- Finding and building community on the Manito Trail / Trisha Venisa-Alicia Martínez and Vanessa Fonseca-Chávez -- "Working on the dark side" : public land management and tribal relations / Yvette Towersap Tuell -- Adjudication of Three Tribes' Water Rights / E. Richard Hart -- "This is our home; this is our land" : memory, visual sovereignty, and museum exhibition on the Klamath River Basin / Brittani R. Orona -- Placemaking in public : building a Native American studies program on the indigenous Columbia Plateau / Laurie Arnold -- Scholarship, the public, and the challenge of local history / Jedediah Rogers -- Building bridges / Stephen Aron and Virginia Scharff.
Summary "This collection of essays explores the meanings and uses of contemporary public history in the American West"-- Provided by publisher.
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Subject University of Utah. American West Center -- History.
University of Utah. American West Center.
History.
Public history -- West (U.S.) -- History.
Public history.
Public lands -- West (U.S.) -- Management.
Public lands.
Management.
Public historians -- West (U.S.)
Public historians.
Public lands -- Management.
West United States.
Genre/Form History.
Added Author Smoak, Gregory E., 1962- editor.
Thompson, Gregory C. (Gregory Coyne), 1943- writer of foreword.
Other Form: Print version: Western lands, western voices Salt Lake City : University of Utah Press, [2021] 9781647690342 (DLC) 2021007612
ISBN 9781647690359 electronic book
1647690358 electronic book
9781647690342 paperback
9781647690366 hardcover