Books and articles:
Many Wests: Place, Culture, & Regional
Identity. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas,
1997. Coedited with David M. Wrobel.
Region and Regionalism in the
United States: A Source Book for the Humanities and
Social Sciences. New York: Garland Publishers,
1988. Coauthored with Clarence Mondale.
Mapping American Culture. Iowa
City: University of Iowa Press, 1992. Coedited with
Wayne Franklin.
"Parables of Stone and Steel: Architectural
Images of Nostalgia and Progress at the Columbian Exposition
and Disneyland," American Studies 42 (Spring
2001): 39-67.
"Robert Hine, Sense of Place, and
the Terrain of Western History," Pacific Historical
Review 70 (August 2001): 453-63.
"Knowing the Place for the First
Time: Discovering America by Teaching American Studies
Abroad," American Studies Association Newsletter 21
(December 2000): 1, 10-11.
"Frontierland as Tomorrowland: Walt
Disney and the Architectural Packaging of the Mythic
West," Montana: The Magazine of Western History 48
(Spring 1998). (This article won the Vivian A.
Paladin Award from the Montana State Historical Society
as the best article to be published in Montana in
1998).
"Regionalism" and "Sectionalism," in
John Mack Faragher, ed. American Heritage Encyclopedia
of American History. New York: Henry Holt, 1998,
774-76 and 833-34.
"American Regionalism: A Selected
Bibliography," chapter six of American Studies/
Regional Studies: A Report, edited by Kat Mussell,
Wash., D.C.: The American University, 1980, 255-305.
"The Significance of Turner's Sectional
Thesis." Western Historical Quarterly 10 (October,
1979), 437-66. (This essay won the Winther Award from
the Western History Association as the best article
to appear in the WHQ in 1979.)
"Regionalism in the Great Depression." Geographical
Review 73 (October, 1983), 430-46.
"Pleasures and Perils of Nostalgia
in Local History." Journal of Orange County Studies 2
(Spring, 1989), 46-48.
"Frederick Jackson Turner and Western
Regionalism," Writing Western History: Essays on
Classic Western Historians, edited by Richard W.
Etulain, Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press,
1991, pp. 103-35.
"Taking Place: Toward the Regrounding
of American Studies." With Wayne Franklin, in Franklin
and Steiner, eds., Mapping American Culture. Iowa
City, Univ. of Iowa Press, 1992, pp. 3-23.
"Reading the Citrus Landscape." California
History 74 (Spring 1995), 112-17.
"From Frontier to Region: Frederick
Jackson Turner and the New Western History." Pacific
Historical Review 64 (November 1995), 479-501.
Review of E. Bradford Burns, Kinship
With the Land. Indiana Magazine of History 94
(December 1998): 364-66.
Review of Robert Ritchie and Paul
Andrew Hutton, eds. Frontier and Region: Essays in
Honor of Martin Ridge. Montana: The Magazine
of Western History 48 (Winter 1998): 76-78.
Review of Hugh Prince, Wetlands of
the American Midwest. Journal of American History 86
(June 1999): 202-203.
Review of Ronald H. Carpenter, The
Eloquence of Frederick Jackson Turner. Western Historical
Quarterly 16 (January, 1985), 78.
Review of David M. Wrobel, The End
of American Exceptionalism. American Studies 23
(Spring, 1995), 152-53.
Review of Wilbur R. Jacobs, On Turner's
Trail. Indiana Magazine of History, (Spring,
1996).
Works in Progress:
"Carey McWilliams and the Politics
of Western regionalism, 1922-1951," to be included
in an anthology on politics and the new western history
(University of Kansas Press, 2005).
--Book length study of 20th century
western American regionalists
