John L Allen

Biographic Data

ID3736438
NAMEJohn L Allen
GIVEN NAMESJohn L
FAMILY NAMEAllen
SIGNATUREALLEN J L
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Wyoming, Laramie
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS28
TOTAL CITATIONS34
AUTHOR COUNT28
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1971
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2017
H-INDEX3

  • Church communications highlights 2016

    Open AccessJohn Allen, John L Allen et al.ARTICLEChurch, Communication and Culture2017

    Looking back, 2016 seems destined to be remembered as the ‘Year of the Surreal,’ a 12-month period in which conventional wisdom crumbled on multiple fronts and the previously unthinkable became the new normal. This essay surveys ten of the most important issues and events of the past year from the point of view of Catholic Church communications: Pope Francis’s February trip to Mexico; release of the pope’s landmark apostolic exhortation on the fa…

  • The Elusive West and the Contest for Empire, 1713–1763

    John Allen, John L AllenARTICLEImago Mundi2013

  • Mapping and Imagination in the Great Basin: A Cartographic History

    John Allen, John L Allen et al.ARTICLEWestern Historical Quarterly2006

    Journal Article Mapping and Imagination in the Great Basin: A Cartographic History Get access Mapping and Imagination in the Great Basin: A Cartographic History. By Francaviglia Richard V.. (Reno: University of Nevada Press, 2005, xviii + 231 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $44.95.) John L. Allen John L. Allen University of Wyoming Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Western Historical Quarterly…

  • Interpreters with Lewis and Clark: The Story of Sacagawea and Toussaint Charbonneau

    John Allen, John L AllenARTICLEEthnohistory2005

    Book Review| April 01 2005 Interpreters with Lewis and Clark: The Story of Sacagawea and Toussaint Charbonneau W. Dale Nelson. (Denton: University of North Texas Press, 2003. $24.95 cloth, $14.95 paper.) John L. Allen John L. Allen Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Ethnohistory (2005) 52 (2): 487–489. https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-52-2-487 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Sea…

  • The Lewis and Clark Journals: An American Epic of Discovery

    John L Allen, Gary E MoultonARTICLEJournal of the Early Republic2003Cited by: 2

    The Lewis and Clark Journals: An American Epic of Discovery, Edited by Gary E. Moulton. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2003. Pp. Ixviii, 413. Illustrations, maps. Cloth, $29.95JAfter spending the last twenty years as the editor of the magisterial thirteenvolume The Journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition (1983-2003), no one is better qualified to distill the voluminous record of America's exploratory epic down to a single volume than …

  • A River Running West: The Life of John Wesley Powell

    John Allen, John L Allen et al.ARTICLEWestern Historical Quarterly2002

    Journal Article A River Running West: The Life of John Wesley Powell Get access A River Running West: The Life of John Wesley Powell. By Worster Donald. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2001. xiii + 673 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $35.) John L. Allen John L. Allen University of Wyoming Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Western Historical Quarterly, Volume 33, Issue 2, Summer 2002, Pages…

  • Creating Colorado: The Making of a Western American Landscape, 1860-1940

    Open AccessJohn Allen, John L AllenARTICLEJournal of Historical Geography2001

  • A Life Wild and Perilous: Mountain Men and the Paths to the Pacific

    John Allen, John L Allen et al.ARTICLEJournal of American History1998

    Journal Article A Life Wild and Perilous: Mountain Men and the Paths to the Pacific. By Robert M. Utley. (New York: Holt, 1997. xviii, 392 pp. $27.50, ISBN 0-8050-3304-1.) Get access John L. Allen John L. Allen University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 85, Issue 2, September 1998, Page 662, https://doi.org/10.2307/2567794 Published: 0…

  • First across the Continent: Sir Alexander Mackenzie

    John Allen, John L Allen et al.ARTICLEWestern Historical Quarterly1998

    Journal Article First Across the Continent: Sir Alexander Mackenzie Get access First Across the Continent: Sir Alexander Mackenzie. By Gough Barry. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1997. xxi + 232 pp. Illustrations, maps, appendixes, bibliography, index. $29.95.) John L. Allen John L. Allen University of Connecticut Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Western Historical Quarterly, Volume 29, Issue 3, Aut…

  • Hail Columbia: Robert Gray, John Kendrick, and the Pacific Fur Trade

    John Allen, John L Allen et al.ARTICLEJournal of American History1995

    Journal Article Hail Columbia: Robert Gray, John Kendrick, and the Pacific Fur Trade. By John Scofield. (Portland: Oregon Historical Society, 1993. xx, 378 pp. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 0-87595-234-8.) Get access John L. Allen John L. Allen University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 82, Issue 1, June 1995, Pages 210–211, https://doi.org/10.2…

  • Acts of Discovery: Visions of America in the Lewis and Clark Journals

    John Allen, John L Allen et al.ARTICLEJournal of American History1994

    Journal Article Acts of Discovery: Visions of America in the Lewis and Clark Journals. By Albert Furtwangler. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1993. xii, 276 pp. $29.95, ISBN 0-252-02002-2.) Get access John L. Allen John L. Allen University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 81, Issue 3, December 1994, Pages 1296–1297, https://doi.o…

  • Otter Skins, Boston Ships, and China Goods: The Maritime Fur Trade of the Northwest Coast, 1785-1841

    John Allen, John L Allen et al.ARTICLEJournal of American History1993

    Journal Article Otter Skins, Boston Ships, and China Goods: The Maritime Fur Trade of the Northwest Coast, 1785–1841. By James R. Gibson. (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1992. xxii + 422 pp. $43.00, ISBN 0-295-97169-X.) Get access John L. Allen John L. Allen University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 80, Issue 1, June 1993, P…

  • From Cabot to Cartier: The Early Exploration of Eastern North America, 1497–1543

    John Allen, John L AllenARTICLEAnnals of the Association of…1992Cited by: 5References: 10

    Initial European responses to the Columbian discovery included an exploratory process that, in the space of a half-century, delineated the basic geographical features of North America's Atlantic coast. This exploratory process was conditioned by pre-Columbian European "geosophy' or images of lands in the western Atlantic and by the desire to locate a water route to Asia. The first European explorers to make contact with North America did so far t…

  • Mapping Texas and the Gulf Coast: The contributions of Saint-Denis, Oliván, and Le Maire

    Open AccessJohn Allen, John L AllenARTICLEJournal of Historical Geography1991Cited by: 1

  • Astoria & Empire

    John Allen, John L Allen et al.ARTICLEJournal of American History1991

    Journal Article Astoria & Empire. By James P. Ronda. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1990. xiv + 400 pp. $25.00.) Get access John L. Allen John L. Allen University of Connecticut, Storrs Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 78, Issue 2, September 1991, Pages 657–658, https://doi.org/10.2307/2079575 Published: 01 September 1991

  • The Journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition

    John Allen, John L Allen et al.ARTICLEThe William and Mary Quarterly1989Cited by: 17

  • Researcher responsibilities, not animal rights: A comment on Rollin

    Daniel D Moriarty, John Allen et al.ARTICLEAmerican Psychologist1986

  • Researcher responsibilities, not animal rights: A comment on Rollin

    Daniel D Moriarty, John Allen et al.ARTICLEAmerican Psychologist1986

  • Voyage into Substance: Art, Science, Nature, and the Illustrated Travel Account, 1760-1840

    Open AccessJohn Allen, John L AllenREVIEWGeographical Review1985Cited by: 1

    Voyage into Substance reopens the whole complex question of how nature was perceived and penetrated during the Enlightenment--a time when artist-scientists trekked across Egyptian deserts, astronomer-mariners navigated the Polar seas, and meteorologist-aeronauts sailed through the atmosphere's waves, all seeking to discover and record the non-human likeness of the phenomenal world.By examining the popular, multi-national illustrated narratives an…

  • Jefferson and Southwestern exploration: The freeman and custis accounts of the Red River expedition of 1806

    Open AccessJohn Allen, John L AllenARTICLEJournal of Historical Geography1984

  • Thomas Jefferson and the Stony Mountains. Exploring the West from Monticello

    Open AccessJohn Allen, John L AllenARTICLEJournal of Historical Geography1983

  • Joseph Nicollet and His Map

    Open AccessJohn Allen, John L Allen et al.ARTICLEGeographical Review1982

  • A fabric of ideas and dreams: On the humanistic dimensions of geography

    John Allen, John L AllenARTICLEReviews in Anthropology1979References: 6

    Karl W. Butzer, ed. Dimensions of Human Geography: Essays on Some Familiar and Neglected Themes. Chicago: The University of Chicago, Department of Geography, Research Paper no. 186, 1978. v + 190 pp. Figures, plates, tables, maps, footnotes, bibliography, and abstracts

  • Mirrors of the New World: Images and Image-Makers in the Settlement Process

    Open AccessJohn Allen, John L Allen et al.ARTICLEGeographical Review1979Cited by: 2References: 11

    Newspaper Library and La Trobe Library, M elbourne

  • England and the discovery of America, 1481–1620

    Open AccessJohn Allen, John L AllenARTICLEJournal of Historical Geography1976Cited by: 1