Dan Flores
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4,468 appearances
23 recordings
4 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard 18 Aug
Dan Flores’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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The truth is that even among a group of PhD Western historians, no hour-long discussion is going to probe some ultimate resolved truth about which are the best books on a subject as vast as the American West.
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All we can do here is offer up to listeners and viewers a tiny sample of our personal favorites and explain why we're advancing these above all the other possibilities.
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Our street cred for this exercise probably rests primarily on this reality.
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We have all been voracious readers of books about the West for a long time and have also taught university courses that were steeped in information from books.
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I'm gonna go last with my own choices, but I'll start this out with a quick exercise that will give you some idea of the literary possibilities when you take on a subject like the American West and literature.
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The last time I taught a graduate class in the history of the West at the University of Montana was in the fall of twenty thirteen.
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I'd organized the bibliography of books on the West I handed out to the PhD and MA students in that class into 14 subfields.
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I looked at them again the other day.
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Here's how they broke down and how many books I listed in each subheading.
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First was overviews of the West.
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There were forty-six titles in that one.
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The Native West through the early 20th century, 123 titles.
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Western Exploration and Imperialism, 77 titles.
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The first extractive economy, the fur trade, got 40 titles.
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Understanding the West through science and art in the 19th century, 43 titles.
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Frontier Extraction, Mining and Logging, 60 titles.
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Settler Societies Farming and Ranching the West, 76 titles.
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Class, Ethnicity, and Gender in the West, 112 titles.
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Western Infrastructure and the West of the City, 68 titles.
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History of the Western Environment, 104 different titles.
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